So that's like banning certain Base58 strings? Or banning the use of certain words? Good luck with that!

If they could ban Bitcoin, I think they would have done it by now. If my government bans my investment on which I've been paying taxes, I expect full compensation for my damages.

Over 10 years is a long time and bitcoin has gone through a lot. If this was possible then we would have died already. So just relax, I think it's impossible to destroy all nodes and hypothetically say they destroyed all live nodes - how would anyone destroy the copies that are stored in individual drives?

They can try and why would we think that they never tried it. It's just an angle to have debate and that's all. Practically, the possibility is near to zero.

Why even this topic today @OP? :-D

Too late to ban it now, now that big money is involved and they are benefitting from taxes. Perhaps on some countries with little to no development on the cryptocurrency side of things, this is possible. But for those countries which already have established communities for bitcoin and crypto? It will be difficult. Besides, how would the ban play out if people can still use it underground? It's a futile endeavour, and probably just a waste of resources, too, for the government's side.

Right now they cannot do it or people are not going to stop wondering why they are doing something like this when things like marijuana is being legalized, first we need to look at the circumstances that lead to the banning of gold ownership and it basically happened because the biggest crisis on the century hit governments incredibly hard.

And we are seeing that circumstances are aligning themselves with a new crisis coming during the next decade, so I think governments will at some point ban bitcoin, but things are not going to be as easy, people are going to do everything they can to maintain their wealth and if they have to choose between obeying the law and having the possibility of buying food they will choose the latter and will keep using bitcoin even if it is illegal.

I think it is too late to do something about Bitcoin, after it has built up a market value of billions and has millions of investors around the world, any country can ban Bitcoin, but it will still survive and no government can prevent people from investing it even if they impose sanctions, because decentralization will protect investors to show their identity.

Governments will be able to ban Bitcoin, but Bitcoin represents money and people will never give up money, just because of that they will not be able to follow the rules or regulations that a government has or imposes on them, the US has many restrictions, even for some casinos to those who are not allowed access there.

It is normal for a country to want to have control of the entire economy as banks do, with Bitcoin the debt ends, this does not suit governments or banks, that's why they want to ban bitcoin, as well as gold, it they do, they don't allow people to achieve their Financial Freedom.

Agree, the governments should already ban Bitcoin if they want and can do it. But in fact, they don't do it, which means they let Bitcoin exists and develops. Moreover, Bitcoin already becomes an important thing for all people around the world. They can gain money and do business through Bitcoin, it is very helpful to improve people's income and the world's economy as a whole. With these considerations, the governments have no strong reasons to ban it now.

This is like "Closing the gate after the horse is gone" only there is no gate!

The only actions governments can take is heavily regulating the entry
and exit points to Bitcoin.

I cannot see the US banning Bitcoin after it is allowing people and companies
(private and public) to buy, hold, trade and sell it.

Anyway Bitcoin will exist regardless of what governments do.

if this happens, then we will really be very difficult to access all of our assets in bitcoin. we all know that access to interact with bitcoin will clearly be watched and controlled. the government has access to close the bitcoin space, but are they sure they can cover our anger which in fact will attack the government system much more aggressively. that's what will happen can be easily caused chaos. the government doesn't necessarily shut us down, and we have a way of getting in.

If they decide to ban the cryptocurrency it'll just come back stronger as the alternatives would be worse. A strong community would come back in its place to support this currency in all circumstances. That's why the probability of legalization is much more likely than ban. Its far better to adopt the future than fearing it.