https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/564696-bye-bye-bitcoin-time-to-ban... Jim Bell's comment follows: That opinion is utter nonsense.  But governments may be tempted to follow it, probably because those governments suspect that they will eventually be destroyed by those cryptocurrencies, just as I believed (and continue to believe) when I wrote my Assassination Politics essay in January 1995. https://cryptome.org/ap.htm