.... However, what other choice do governments have? ...
They have the same choice El Salvador made.
Oh, if only that were true. The UK (we began this with a post about UK taxation/HMRC) is at the very heart of the old financial order. Remember that the Federal Reserve's
modus operandi was based on the Bank of England's. I would love to see the UK accept BTC as legal tender. In fact, that would be astonishingly good. But that would be akin to a bitcoin phoenix rising from the flames of a rotten corpse. We can live in hope though.