Now that US elections are apparently over and the convicted felon became the next US president I'd like to raise some rhetorical questions since during this campaign and because of heightened emotions in the heavily polarized society of America, many people forgot that governments and generally speaking "centralization" is not a friend of "decentralization". In fact they are the exact opposite in a way that we can even call them enemies!

So here are some questions for all of us to have in mind and maybe gain some experience from all this...

• Will Ulbricht be released (as in be a free man not just have his sentence commuted) on January 20 or 21, 2025 (ie. the first day in office)?
• Will US government stop attacking Bitcoin?
• Will the US government stop forcing American miners to censor transactions which is a clear violation of one of the main principles of Bitcoin?
• Will the US government stop attacking anything remotely privacy related? For instance will shutting down mixing services including CoinJoin tools stop? Will arresting of such devs (like Samourai Wallet dev) stop?
• Will the US government tone down its surveillance and attempt to control everything and everyone specifically those who own cryptocurrencies?
• Will the unfair rules they keep enforcing on centralized services like exchanges stop? Rules like invasive and strict KYC and the nonsense with "taint" censorship?
• Will the OFAC stop its sanctions on Bitcoin?
• Will the tax laws become friendlier when it comes to cryptocurrencies or will they get worse as the budget deficit and government debt grow larger?

Feel free to add your own rhetorical questions below. Things you know are unlikely to change just because some politician gave some promises while he needed votes...