We are the cause of our own problems in the crypto universe in a sense that the rate at which scam projects and hacks have been on the increase is way too much for the government to sit back without protecting its people. Regulation of crypto may send it into the hands of some centralized bodies to make crypto not attain its fully decentralized nature as we know BTC and most of the cryptos to be. If crypto was to be operating without scams ad hack attempts, I think the government wouldn't have any point to come in to save its people because some people think crypto was made on grounds to still from people who have little knowledge on crypto.