> but wants government regulation to prevent abuses of the system. But government is the original abuser of the system. That's _the_ reason cypherpunks built a

> but wants government regulation to prevent abuses of the system. But government is the original abuser of the system. That's _the_ reason cypherpunks built and adopted Bitcoin. Bitcoin was just the first digital money the government couldn't shutdown. It had shutdown centralized versions prior. Now, Monero is better for privacy, but Bitcoin remains the `Gold Standard` for government resistant digital currency, and none of the other currencies would be in existence had Bitcoin not paved the way to make governments accept cryptos.