Please specify which jurisdiction you are talking about. China? Are people "accepting and surviving on" Bitcoin in China?

I do understand your point about fear. There is some level of irony. You don't really care about using it until you're afraid, but then you become afraid to use it. Likewise the government doesn't really need to intervene, until people start using it.

I think my main point is that bitcoiners are too focused on the difficulty of stopping all nodes, without considering the loss of value proposition when *transactions* are effectively stopped.

We can zap each other back and forth for 20 years, meanwhile the "real" economy doesn't accept Bitcoin as currency.

This is where people like to talk about a borderless, visa-less, world citizen that just migrates to El Salvador or something.