No. What kind of law could the any government make to outlaw software/code for a ledger?
Let's start
- ban all atms
- banks must stop servicing any cryptocurrency exchanges
- merchants are not allowed to offer bitcoin payments
We're back at SR levels in a second. What are you going to use is for? Look how shiny your 1s and 0s are?
You didn't get the context. The question actually was, what can any government do to outlaw the writing of code/development of software for a "new kind of database"?
What makes you think government can't do that? US government already limit A.I/cryptography exports and forcing restrict GitHub account from some country.
They could ban specific type of cryptography which used on popular cryptocurrency such as ECDSA combined with secp256k1.
The U.K. already proposed to forbid publishing open source, non custodial wallet software in one of their AMLD5 proposals. Luckily they decided not to include that rule in their final draft, but they are definitely eyeballing it.