> can the government enforce that the software has to be written a certain way? I doubt they would intend to. Instead, they would make it illegal to run, and p

> can the government enforce that the software has to be written a certain way? I doubt they would intend to. Instead, they would make it illegal to run, and possibly to otherwise involve yourself with, software written in a certain way. The bitcoin community could choose to either withdraw from the US and any allied country that aided in enforcement, or they could choose to change the software to no longer behave that way. In practice, the latter option would basically force them to move to proof of stake. But given the origins of bitcoin as an anti-government system, they would likely choose some variant of the former option.