Monero leaves no trace and governments are afraid of that. Money laundering and terrorist financing are pretextual reasons. It's all about total financial control and citizen surveillance. Monero protects against surveillance, financial control and banking crises.
Discussion
Are you willing to comment on #cashu?
You mean custodial fractionally reserves banks?
What is the benefit of owning a "private" BTC IOU, especially if most people ever would only own IOUs at scale? Back to square one...
It's worse than noncustodial cash on the fiat standard.