Quote from: arpon11 on November 11, 2018, 04:22:11 PM

Quote from: jonathan6655321 on October 08, 2017, 06:54:10 PM

hi there
I wonder why should governments allow bitcoin to continue growing?
after all, they want to have control over the money that we are using

I think and I believe that governments has no capacity to shut down bitcoin and blockchain technology and if its has that capability it could have done that long time ago. Did you think governments will live things that there know will bring freedom to the society and common man? I don't think so. Governments will ever be against bitcoin and other coins and that is why they are promoting bad and false news about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. I don't think government can do much again bitcoin than it has already done!

What you say is not necessary to take down bitcoin. They need just to block the bootstrap node IPs to which the wallet connects to at boot time, and voilà, all the wallets in the country don't work anymore.

Or they can threaten the BTC core dev team, making them remove the software from github and the official download sites