I think that's beside the point.. If you listened to the Regulatory hearings in NYC recently and yes I did listen to all 4-5 hours of it, most of it was positive about Cryptocoins.
However, I did also get the impression that almost everyone agreed that Tumblers/Mixing services are the biggest problem (from a legal perspective)..

This means that in all likelihood US regulators (lead by NYC) will probably end up banning Tumblers and Mixing Services, which would effectively ban any coin that had those services embedded.

so on the one hand.. yes mixing is good for subversion of oppressive regimes.. but on the other hand it may be a barrier for broader market acceptance.

In my mind this means that even though none of the decentralized crypto currencies can be stopped outright, the ones with inbuilt mixers may end up being pushed out of the mainstream and so lose market share..


just something to consider. look what Russia and china banning the official use of Bitcoin as currency did to the Price of BTC.
yes BTC can still be traded as a commodity in those markets and yes there are still going to be black markets using them...

but the net result is that the price went DOWN.