Yes, nations that want to outlaw something usually use criminal activity and instability as justifications. People always forget to talk about how cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, give people power by making it easy to send money without banks taking a cut. A spike in prices? Another bad guy that steals the worth of your money without you even noticing. Bitcoin, on the other hand, act like heroes and protect us from the teeth of inflation. While traditional currencies print, devalue, and inflate, bitcoin have a 'no more' cap that controls inflation. The globe laments energy consumption and instability, but they overlook the independence, self-sufficiency, and inflation hedge that cryptocurrency affords. It never talks about the good things, only the bad. This is a one-sided, biased discussion that is rife with hypocrisy and lack of vision