Tech can't protect itself against government. We can make it more difficult, like with mixers, end to end encryption etc, but in the end, laws and regulations will always trump it. Whatever tech stack plugin we create to protect bitcoiners can just be declared illegal by government.

That doesn't mean we should give up an not try to protect, but we need to be conscious that we need strong, constant political pressure to actually solve it.

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The risk is not so much for governments to deem Bitcoin illegal (of course tech can’t prevent this) but rather for the tech to fail to democratize its usage the way it’s supposed to work (P2P transfers that can’t be censored in the case of #Bitcoin) . Governments attempted to stop encryption but they fail because the tech succeeded at being broadly adopted and no regulation could stop this. Bitcoin tech hasn’t proven yet that it can be widely adopted in a fashion that is out of reach of the government. But the tech can still evolve and maybe #drivechain can fix this.

A truly decentralized multi headed monster is what we need.