Check out this positive little article -
Link to article:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClubcoinCo/comments/49caio/governments_are_beginning_to_accept_the/Real change in government opinion or not? Also despite, in most cases, the acceptance being a move based on greed and not for the benefit of people, how much will this help take power way from a central authority? Will digital currency just be come heavily regulated and inevitably centralised?
What stops this happening? Does anything?
The more positive articles about Bitcoin the better. I don't think we should worry about whether Bitcoin is regulated or wether it is traceable. To some extent it is, but basically it depends on the individual who uses it. You can always use additional measures of precaution if you want so, but most of us shouldn't even care about such things.