Gold is possibly more easily controllable as the scarcity is unknown, but obv with Bitcoin there are enough ways to surpress it as well. Pretty sure many govs will try to ban all BTC adoption in the coming years (incl Nostr zaps).
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I believe you just made the argument of why gold can’t be controlled and why bitcoin can be controlled.
You can’t control something when you don’t know the amount.
21 million a few million coins have been lost. You know the number. Everyone knows how many to capture.
They did not ban gold (or its adoption). They took control of its mining, banned the free circulation of nuggets and bars, forced all jewelry to be branded and declared. In the case of Bitcoin, the attack vector may be aimed at self-storage and banning self-custody wallets. There have been attempts and there will be more, but they are unlikely to ban Bitcoin (or its adoption) - they want to control it.
