> but they do make uptake among regular people slower. Which is not a problem at all! In fact it's good and a sign of bitcoin's success: a free market is self-

> but they do make uptake among regular people slower. Which is not a problem at all! In fact it's good and a sign of bitcoin's success: a free market is self-regulated. > Governments are not rational. Well, even if they succeed killing bitcoin (which I doubt) bitcoin won by making a government spend millions of dollars (bear in mind $1.2M is the current price even before ASICs got mainstream) and a lot of time/effort killing a currency that will probably just migrate to an alternate blockchain in a couple days without much effort.