The entire peacetime power of industrialized governments is their fiat currency. Without it, these governments don't even exist. No alternatives to fiat can be

The entire peacetime power of industrialized governments is their fiat currency. Without it, these governments don't even exist. No alternatives to fiat can be tolerated in the long term. An easy solution would be to just ban crypto from being on either side of any regulated transaction. That would include cashing out, as that is a transaction from crypto to fiat currency. Depositing money into crypto would become unregulated (you have no recourse if you are ripped off), but that wouldn't matter - hardly anyone beyond darknet participants will want to bother at that point. Crypto can go back to being the currency of choice for buying weed or mdma...no one will care at that point, as fiat currency isn't threatened by drug deals. Some people seem to think the size of the crypto market means it can't be smashed for yucks. No one who "matters" is staked out on crypto, these people can all be left to twist in the wind. Crypto can be destroyed. Gold on the other hand can only be moved. There is no economical way to actually destroy gold, and obviously no way to create more of it. Gold will still be here when the last Beanie Baby unravels, when the last Hank Aaron baseball card turns to dust, and when the last ssd full of bitcoin falls apart in a landfill.