> The saving grace of this situation is the technology being proposed to do this is neither robust nor particularly useful at achieving their stated political g

> The saving grace of this situation is the technology being proposed to do this is neither robust nor particularly useful at achieving their stated political goals. Yes but we know that technology can improve over time. Given the amount of capital being poured into cryptocurrency, it is reasonable to expect that cryptocurrency technology could get better at achieving its stated goals. It could get dramatically better. The technology is based on cryptography and open source code, trying to ban it would be like trying to ban drugs or guns (good luck).