Another curious thing to note is that the legal requirements on transaction delays are mostly regarding wealth control, scams and ensuring its difficult to laun

Another curious thing to note is that the legal requirements on transaction delays are mostly regarding wealth control, scams and ensuring its difficult to launder money. Strictly speaking, if bitcoin was treated as a currency, or even a publicly traded derivative, internationally a lot of them would apply to bitcoin. Bitcoin of course cannot obey these by design, but the more popular it gets, the more countries will try to enforce these, most recently china. That bitcoin is more vulnerable to state actors than people seem to think is pretty funny too. If china turned all its supercomputing clusters to bitcoin mining without building anything new, they might well become big enough to control the blockchain. If they made an investment in asics large enough to match just the recent baidu supercomputer, they would control the blockchain entirely. So good luck getting your assets out when they decide to really enforce their rules. Just kidding, this will only ever be approved when the officials in charge want to really own a lot of bitcoin^^. More realistically they would just simultaneously and long term kill every major exchange via hacking and ddos and asset freezes, but thats just because that would be cheaper.