Churdtzu, Thank you for this reply! I think the form a government crackdown would take would probably be selective prosecutions. Govmts could simply start prosecuting large numbers of people involved in

Maybe these technologies are too efficient for governments. A world of hyper-efficiency and rationality isn't really ideal for the survival of governments as we know them.

Re- your last point, see my book Setting Sun for the empirics on this. The US govmt is highly dependent on inflationary monetary policy as a method of funding itself; if alt currency largely took over,