Earlier I was reading another Steemit user talking about how she was sad some people in Latin America can't use cryptocurrencies because they have been made illegal, I immediately had a negative reaction because I don't think we should be giving up so easily.
Is it enough for the government to say something is illegal for us to abandon it? Why not declare peace illegal then? Why not declare hospitals illegal?
Cryptocurrencies are the law, the code is the law and those who participate in these networks are submitting to these laws.
Of course governments are going to make laws against something that could possibly take their place!
We need to drill in people's heads that governments don't own the Internet, they don't own our ideas, they don't own us and they can't control us.
We don't have to be enemies, governments can continue to exist with cryptocurrencies they just need to step up their game and provide better services. Instead they would prefer to imprison and kill the competition because their system is probably so twisted that they can't see a way to improve it without them losing the game completely.
But to any institutions or agencies that may be reading this now...you're digging your own grave by trying to make cryptocurrencies illegal. The more you try to keep people away from this technology the faster the word gets out that you have no control in reality.