That is true when you include "I may want some of this in the future" and "I think this is good, want it to succeed and want to put my mo ey where my mouth is" under the banner of "speculation.

> government can just decide whether you can by or sell something to kill it at will

I see that has worked so well for other illegal things, like alcohol in the '20s, drugs and such.

Government is powerful, but it is not God. People get a say in how things happen (and I don't mean just voting). In recent history, some of the more powerful drivers for crypto adoption have been resistence to runaway inflation amd bypassing capital controls. Do you see either of those in our short-medium term future?