They are obviously afraid that decentralization will make their job harder. Every single day the FBI is trying to connect people, and evidence together and the more we are able to do in the Internet the harder it is for those old knuckleheads who got their training in the 80s and 90s to put all the pieces together. Times change and if not through Bitcoin it would be through something else that they'd lose their grip. Old people have to either learn and evolve or be replaced by new, younger agents who grew up playing computer games, jailbreaking phones and mining cryptocurrencies.

If you do think that your information is not with the FBI even right now , I think you might be wrong .

It's more or so a known fact that the apps we use like Facebook and all , do sell the user's data to the government of different nations , at the same time if someone did file a complain against you or if you did something questionable then people might be tracking your every step .

Now the government is forcing the wallet companies to use KYC , at the same time they are forcing banks to do KYC too , or else they just shut off the account and you have to do a lot of things to make it work again , therefore when you buy cryptocurrencies from your bank accounts or when it's being deposited there , that information is easily accessible to the government body at the same time blockchain stores the data of any transaction forever which can be used by anyone .

I do think FBI have realized this by now and would be using this to track people they think are fishy.  If they did not make life difficult for the investors right now I do think they will do it in the future too since blockchain is providing them with data which can be accessed if the person is crypto savy , honestly I don't think they will make anything difficult for anyone.

We already have more transparency than the governmental system.

We certainly cannot tell whether or not the FBI is interested in shutting Bitcoin down. Much of their business is out of the public's observation after all. What I think to be more or less certain is that they must have already heard or known a great deal about Bitcoin.

But what's the point waging a war against it? They cannot shut down Bitcoin. Even the name Satoshi Nakamoto is unfathomable.

This sentence stood out - 'Overall, we think the FBI might be being a little naive with these comments.'

They've been gifted with a public and eternal record of every transaction that will ever take place. That makes their job rather easier.

People will point to Monero but we see right now that many dark market types value the convenience of Bitcoin over proper anonymity. Properly private coins will be pushed out of all legit exchanges eventually so will become even more fringe.

I do not think they are worried about that after all if that was true then other countries will have to rely more on them to trap people and this is something that could benefit them as they could gain an upper hand in almost any negotiation.

But this is not true, the blockchain is there to be accessed by anyone that dares to try unlike what happens to fiat, so if a criminal at some point made a mistake then even if the current technology cannot catch him now it could happen in the next decade or two, think of this the same way we think of DNA now, decades ago a criminal could have left some blood on a crime scene but at the time no one could do anything with it but once the science of DNA advanced they could catch the culprit.

The FBI don't have the power to ban Bitcoin, they can only ask the Senate to do it, like they probably do with phone encryption and private messengers. But the more popular Bitcoin becomes, the less likely it will be banned, because it would negatively affect the elections - if even a few percent of the population are into Bitcoin, their votes can be deciding.

I don't know why they are taking apart with bitcoin well, in fact, they shouldn't because bitcoin or cryptocurrency is decentralized, they should go away and leave all the bitcoin users alone. They are really making our lives difficult if they will give some restrictions on it but I'm still hoping that they wouldn't. The government is pushing themselves in bitcoin because they know how beneficial bitcoin if they have a chance to put a tax on it, then they will because it's their benefits. FBI has no right to do it with bitcoin or to the bitcoin user because of its not a government rights or property.

Most of the crypto investors and cryptocurrency exchange platforms around the world are outside FBI's jurisdiction(unless FBI is about to become the global police,which won't happen if Trump gets re-elected).
You are wrong about blockchain technology being "in every home".We are not even close...
I'm OK with the FBI chasing scammers and hackers that are using Bitcoin.How can that make the life of the average crypto investor "more difficult"?I should make our lives easier,when there are less scammers.