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Allow me to don my tinfoil hat... Could be that Bitcoin is a technology developed and promoted by international central banks, cloaked with a cyberpunk aura via Satoshi. Bitcoin could be an ideal global currency, so long as the central banks could control enough computing power and coin holdings.

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I think it's more likely that the Gov is doing what they normally do and fully assessing a situation first- especially in this situation because how can you meaningfully hurt a decentralized network of this size when it may be easier to just tax it like a resource.

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