I still feel like overall this is good. It's the tightening of the grip that squeezes more of us through the fingers of the authoritarian fist.

Everything discussed above was inevitable. I think most of us have known this for a long time... ever since Bitcoin was unofficially declared a shit coin because it isn't programmable.

At this point I think the regulators are the key to everything.
Once the masses begin to feel the squeeze the mass exodus will be the deathblow that sends them whimpering into oblivion.