Right now governments are doing whatever they please.
Though we are yet to see majority of the governments backing up bitcoin and declaring it as a legal tender, the above statement is somehow disturbing to my own beliefs to say the least.
You see, i don't believe that bitcoin is anti-government in full. Partially, probably, but not in its entirety. The initial design of bitcoin was made in such a way that it can prove to exist without a central authority, but i do believe that bitcoin does not end there. There will be a progressive flow towards achieving a main stream status and that will have to include gaining the government's backing.
And for the governments, they are not anti-bitcoin too. It just so happened that their primary mandate is to look after the welfare of its people. And with bitcoin's volatility, price manipulation speculations and the number of scams and illegal activities related to it, the government have no choice but to take precautionary measures and scrutinize our crypt hero.
It would be sad to believe blindly that the government simply wants to crush bitcoin into pieces simply because they want to. Trust me, they have the best of our interest at heart in many ways. And i am sure, one way or the other, bitcoin was able to impress them with the revolutionary approach it applied regarding its whole structure and function.