>>Yes but don’t you think the government would monitor traffic to those and either block connections which aren’t made by approved local banks or ask you to pro

>>Yes but don’t you think the government would monitor traffic to those and either block connections which aren’t made by approved local banks or ask you to prove you weren’t evading local laws? It's very little data being used by light clients, that can be routed a thousand different ways, not to mention encrypted. And yes governments could certainly do a lot of things but I think that as the object of enforcement becomes the end users, the political cost of enforcing laws against technologies becomes higher, and a blanket crypto ban would require pretty Draconian measures against end users.