Could you imagine the guy who wrote this article in a bar with Satoshi in 2008 telling him the whole project should be abandoned because of this issue? What's

Could you imagine the guy who wrote this article in a bar with Satoshi in 2008 telling him the whole project should be abandoned because of this issue? What's funny about bitcoin is that there are all kinds of ways it could have failed, but it didn't. The government could have kicked down the door at any moment with all kinds of trumped up legal stuff, but they didn't. What happened?