now what rules were those?

If you did KYC to buy your Bitcoin then you are a soy boi who follows the rules.

Tell me again how Bitcoiners roll?

I think this old story is even more sinister than just sheeple following rules.

For those households fortunate enough to hold gold in meaningful amounts, I’d argue in the face of the Depression many very much needed the immediate liquidity that cash provided.

In this way, the state, as it often does, enacted a law when the citizenry was most vulnerable.

Bitcoin goes exactly the same way, they've enforce full KYC. They don't invest billions of USD when they've no control over it. They will monitor every transaction very closely, tainted coins will be a hot topic next year. The lack of fungibility will show up then followed by all the privacy issues. Maxis celebrate the merge between govs and Bitcoin, they have lost the plot.