US gov stance on cryptocurrency, when described this way, is clear to me. “We will only accept X. We will monitor the use of Y as a means of value exchange amon

US gov stance on cryptocurrency, when described this way, is clear to me. “We will only accept X. We will monitor the use of Y as a means of value exchange among the citizenry, since we still want everyone to participate in X market and pay taxes in it[0].” Less double-think, more orthogonality. [0] a.k.a. “maintain a country”