It seems reasonable, and afair TPTB have cracked down on exchanges for game currencies because they do realize this threat.
Is Monero ready to resist such crackdowns? Does it have decentralized exchanges? Can the authorities not track down IP addresses and make examples to discourage others from subverting a ban?
Might work.
My idea is an area that is more targeted to the market of those who need anonymity and thus might be more willing to fight. Not sure if game players want to pick an unnecessary fight with the government.
I like your posts but IPs is one of the least worries for privacy in a coin, the "worst" they could ascertain is that you made a transaction to... somewhere, a Monero crackdown would only
Straisant effect it, they can't even block torrents, how would a ban take place? They can't ban it everywhere in the world at same time.
The problem is not cryptocurrencies being illegal but illegal transactions to obtain illegal services and goods, what Bitcoin too enable and can't fix, the fix for this is going after the bad guys offering illegal services and goods, the same way torrents are not illegal but what you share on them can be, well you can't know what people are "sharing" in the Monero network so you either ban everything or try work around the regulatory aspects Monero enable, then we'll know what is being
anti-fragile, what is being
disruptive, no matter how TPTB try to handle Monero it won't crack and turn back on its users in form a digital financial panopticon like Bitcoin is already.
The Great Firewall of China, that presumed absolute Communist State grand daddy of them all, is merely an http:// blocker. no more.