You have seen this "so much bad media" for the past few years, right? You see any difference in anything? Nope, you don't. But things have changed a lot. It is just that people aren't noticing. The government isn't pushing everything in one single day. They are imposing small rules and policies in such a way that people aren't even noticing the changes (all these small changes in a decade together has caused a huge change! People are just too distracted to notice!).
I would say this is one of the strategy the government is taking so that they can bring crypto currencies under their control through regulations without people making any noise.
Nothing we can do. It's inevitable.

No one is going to sell their house for a dollar unless it is a haunted place. But doing a barter system payment in the 21st century will cut off the taxes to the governments that is why they banned it. We can't comment anything about what government likes to ban because they got the power and can ban anything that they wanted.

Bitcoin is likely to be banned as well when people started using it while it can be continued to use whether a ban is in place or not because there is no central authority to track down the bitcoin transactions.

I read your comment about people sold their house for a buck but asked to take over the remaining mortgage by the buyer which doesn't means the value of house is a buck. And also google didn't gave me any results about this but it could be true when there is no employment opportunity then there is no other way than migrating to a different place but if they have any loan on their house then they have to make some settlement or it will destroy their credit history.

Semobo , I just googled Calgary real estate offices, tons came up, with phone numbers too.
 Those houses were valued around $85,000 up to over a million.
 
Owners had no employment As the pasted post below explains ,so they were not able to make the mortgage payment .They would lose the house and their credit rating . So being there was a law here in Alberta that any residential mortgage could be assumed ,they sold their house to those who advertised that they would buy the house and save the seller's credit rating .   The new buyer became the one on the mortgage ,and that is who lost his credit rating .
Oh, I just read what I had posted , you are right ,it looks like the houses full price was $1 . No they were still worth a lot of money if a buyer could be found. actually, the buyer was only taking over the mortgage for one buck .
The home still had the huge mortgage on it ..The seller lost what equity was in the home ,but he would loose it and his credit rating if the bank repo'd it . The law has now changed , about ten years ago they stopped allowing people to take over a mortgage with out the banks approval..   .I'll paste what I wrote earlier   

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I'm in the province of Alberta ,western Canada , until about 10 years ago In this province only ,any residencial property mortgage could be assumed. I could ( and did ) buy a house with a mortgage ,then walk into the bank that held the mortgage ,and have them transfer it into my name . They didn't like it ,but nothing they could do about it.

In 1982-1984 we had a horrible recession when our prime minister ( the father of this putz who is running things now ) decided to create a huge tax on crude oil , since Alberta ran on oil royalties , all the drilling rigs left for USA, Oil Sands layed of people to, Oil explorartion stopped also . So many people had moved here from other parts of the country ,that finding themselves out of work, no government assistance ,they moved back to where they had lived before coming here .the glut of houses on the market caused a 35% drop in prices.
To save their good credit standing they would sell their house for 1$ and the buyer took over the mortgage. leaving the seller in good standing at the credit bureau !

But the good part is yet to come  ( how about this you bank haters? ) .
The buyer would rent the house out for very attractive price ,but not pay the bank a cent ( sounding good? ) after 3 months of threatening letters to the new holder of the mortgage the bank would take him to court , it was easy to stall the banks off in court for 9 months before the sheriff came and physically booted the tenents out and reclaimed the house . In those days you could rent a house out for $500 ,which was attractive even with the recession .
So for one buck you got the house and mortgage in your name and $500 free and clear for 9 months  $4,500 on each of the houses you bought .
Your credit went to zero but who cared , good blue collar wage was $11 per hour , less than $1,800 per month before taxes ,so you can see the incentive . My lawyer bought over 200 of them .   

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This is likely the first payment and transaction were. Before money, people use to barter for transactions and the price is determined by each value of each good or service. And until now, in my area, there is still kind of transaction, but only a few old people do this depending on the needs.
And moreover, at that time, there was also payment transaction using coin (in which it was real from gold or silver) that they were very valuable until now.

However, after first introduced by China, paper money was issued and had been being developed until now. I don't know what was the first reason for issuing the paper money for the transaction. However, it is also probably because of the development era, technology, and also widening the transaction coverage.
And after the era of development, paper money is the king of the payment.
But now, it seems like the world is changing again because digital money is here and probably will take over the paper money. Remember, that is the digital money (not oy for cryptocurrency but all digital money that is issued also by the government. 

Bitcoin is decentralized, but so far its energy is not enough to get rid of government supervision, unless one day the government's credibility disappears and cannot affect our lives, but this is impossible in the short term.

Why should your public barter system die along with that paper's free ads? That's a huge leap.

Times change. Change happens all the time. I know not where you're coming from but I am almost certain you have internet in your country. Ads on print media is not everything there is to ads. The online world has now dominated people's lives. Perhaps that paper ad's death is just timely. I mean, the modern times are offering more venues and tools and ways for people to deal with each other in whatever business they're at.

In my locality, barter has been revived during the pandemic. And it has made use of social media platforms.

Don't worry about media's portrayal of Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't give a damn.

That's only a wild imagination and it will never happen for sure. Barter only needs a real value of the product or the item that you barter from another product, this has been done a long time ago and you think if this isn't good then for sure it will exist until now and never vanished.

Digital and cash currencies will the only way to determine the value of the product to be exchanged, not just the barter system.

Maybe you can avoid paying tax by using bitcoin and do the same with a barter system, but if there is another way that bitcoin will taxable I will not hesitate my self to give it to my government. Paying tax is just helping to have a progress in your country, by collecting tax it means that you have contributed your part for your country's improvement, look at the US, (the most established country) they are very strongest country because they are very of paying tax, people should pay their obligation.

This is certainly not just xcaret's wild imagination.

From where I live, something has recently made into the national news. It was a local barter community which was based on social media, Facebook in particular. It's a community with tens of thousands of members. All kinds of stuff were posted there for barter. No money involved.

Somebody who needs something will post something else that he/she owns and is willing to let go for the sake of that which he/she needs. This started during the height of the pandemic. A lot of people lost their jobs and livelihood. They've got no money. Things went back to basic all of a sudden. Barter became the refuge of a lot of people, although other stuff relating to hobbies and whatnot are also posted there.