People constantly ask not to go bankrupt from healthcare bills or for a wage they can actually live on. The government don't care.
I wasn't referring to these phenomena. Yeah, life's cruel, I understand that. What I want to mean is that if something's useful, no matter how much you try, no matter how strict you're towards your people, in the end, you can't be hiding it forever. The better always stands out.
Just like you can't prevent me from browsing through Tor, you can't prevent me from using Monero. You may dictate that if I do so, I'll have my head taken off, but that's just a temporary solution. You can't intimidate everyone likewise. You have to admit that a better form of currency exists and get along with it.
And just because you can't stop me from using it, you can't stop me from recommending it to my acquaintances. Thus, another revolution may begin by that thinking which reminds of this quote that was written from a forum member and I think it has a lot of point:
The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
I'm neither foolish to believe that we'll walk around with Monero wallets and feel happy about it. This is never going to happen, but the reason I replied above wasn't meant to support such statement. I wanted to remind you that the same words were said about Bitcoin not long ago and we're now talking about global adoption and other facetious facts.
I'm still confused by yours and Kevin's sayings, so please enlighten me. Governments have to regulate a currency in order to adopt it. Bitcoin transactions can be traced by chain analysis companies whether you're careful or not. However, we have a solution for this; atomic swaps. That way, we can leave much fewer footprints as we'll keep most of our balances in XMR and will convert them to BTC whenever we'll want to make a purchase.
Don't you find it hard, or at least a pain in the ass, to trace every citizen if they have so many options to retain their privacy? Why would a government accept a currency which makes traceability so difficult to be achieved instead of introducing an e-euro which is fully centralized and controlled by them?
Maybe we don't have to use or support a currency whose position is going to be global; significant advantages of it may be sacrificed.