As an interested bystander who doesn't know much about bitcoin I'm genuinely curious if you can address any of the criticisms above or what you think about them

As an interested bystander who doesn't know much about bitcoin I'm genuinely curious if you can address any of the criticisms above or what you think about them. I'd love to see digital currencies outside state control thrive but am hesitant to use things like Bitcoin given the explicit lack of regulation and controls. The anonymous, unregulated side of it is the least attractive to me - I'd prefer it were not at all anonymous, because of all the issues raised by that - it leads directly to incidents like this IMO.