My big fear is a govt play to either kill or take it over and treat/regulate it like other assets...

We need BTC to be used not just held as investment I know we all laugh (or cringe) at the guy that famously paid for his pizza with multiple bitcoin, but in a real world that is just what we need to do. Hell, I bought my ledger wallet when they were running the eth deal, it cost me 1.4 eth which at the time was around $100... I still came out ahead at the time because I bought it for apx $50