Regulatory pressures on exchanges have destroyed any hopes of XMR ever being any more than a P2P privacy coin. It’s sad but I understand why governments hate it. Nothing is stopping us from using it, it is great at what it was designed for but its strengths are in fact what has destroyed any chances of it ever going mainstream.
Exactly. Which tells us XMR is more suitable as a currency (digital cash) than a long-term investment (store of value). Only true believers of privacy and freedom will use Monero regardless of ever-growing government opposition. I wouldn't be surprised if mainstream governments go as far as "banning" XMR from public use. If the US proposed "banning" encryption, anything's possible.
Thank goodness Monero is decentralized and open source. Otherwise, government measures would've destroyed it already. As long as people have a choice, nothing else matters.
