In theory yes, the government can ban bitcoin, but it doesn't really matter because people still will use it and sell/buy it on p2p platforms without KYC. So I think it won't happen because it's more convenient for officials if more crypto transactions are made on the exchanges with KYC so I think they will move in this direction rather than just banning it.

The beauty of bitcoin is that it is decentralized and untrusted, therefore no government can do anything to stop and change bitcoins. And maybe the government could make or pass a law that they want to try to criminalize those who buy bitcoin or use bitcoin will be punished, even if in other ways but that will make some people feel scared.
and of course they are powerless to stop or change bitcoin itself, and bitcoin continues to be so popular that I don't think the government is going to do a hard ban because everyone is finally realizing the many good benefits of bitcoin.

But that will never happen because the world is heterogeneous, I mean, looking at the countries that are dividing each other for the benefit of each country. They will never become 1 or combine into 1. Just comparing with our family members, we can see that we have never all had the same opinion, let alone a country of many different ethnic groups with different thoughts. So we don't need to worry about all of them coming together.

Some governments have already done that long time ago and some of them have also gone through several phases of unbanning and banning Bitcoin. Now the status of Bitcoin is that many countries or governments rather have embraced it. They have already proven that Bitcoin wasn't really a scam or bad but it can be an asset to help them and their country to improve.

Bitcoin being a decentralized crypto could mean that there is no way for any governments to regulate it and maybe that is the reason why they just banned it directly. Right now, governments do only come up with their own crypto which is called CBDC which they can regulate easily.

Bitcoin is not a centralised currency which governmental have power to ban also stop it operation as a digital currency it is a currency that it is centralised and the government have no authority futo stop it increments but they can control all regulate the small size of each but not to stop the existing of cryptocurrency I think that which have not been done in anywhere and it will not happen

in fact, it is very difficult to get banned for something that is not controlled by anyone. for example, in India, even though they announced that they had banned bitcoin or crypto, there are still people there who use crypto. The same thing has also been done by China.

In addition, many governments from developing countries are currently still supporting the development of crypto, especially bitcoin. I'm pretty sure they are aware that crypto can also give them an advantage or disadvantage. crypto is a positive technological development and hard to stop, the choice is to take advantage of it, or try to stay away from it. If a country can ban crypto from their country, I think it has been done a long time ago.

True, BTC is decentralized and banning it won't do much. Yeah, people won't be able to use exchanges, but it was meant to be used P2P. I think BTC is even more important in countries that are banning it.

Never say "never". For what I know, nothing is set in stone. Right now, governments are unable to reach a common agreement. But what if things change in the future? They could decide to unanimously ban Bitcoin if it proves to be a threat to the very existence of Fiat. It's no secret that Bitcoin is growing in popularity and mainstream usage each day. The more powerful BTC gets, the more people will abandon traditional Fiat currencies. And what better way to "stop" Bitcoin than all governments preventing people from using it in the first place? Maybe they will go as far as shutting down the whole Internet, to make a new one from scratch under their control (sort of like Russia is doing right now)? Even if they shut down the whole Internet, there's nothing stopping someone from running a BTC node through a mesh network, satellite, etc. The code is open source, so anyone can easily recreate Bitcoin if they want to.

I fail to see how Bitcoin can be "stopped" right now when it's a "force to reckon with". Governments would have no choice but to embrace the revolution or be left behind in the dust. Some countries have adopted BTC as legal tender, so don't count on it disappearing from the face of the Earth anytime soon. Just my opinion

According to data available at https://bitnodes.io/ there are 54 Bitcoin reachable nodes in China. That means despite all pressure Chinese government still not able to ban bitcoin.
Bitcoin decentralization is ensured by thousands of nodes distributed worldwide and they only way bitcoin can be controlled is to take control of all these nodes, something technically not possible. Moreover, Bitcoin network will continue to operate as long as there is one node willing to run the bitcoin blockchain.

They can't ban it but they can limit the interactions within government controlled or regulated entity's ie banks and make it unusable in day to day life . Its a store of value for me at the moment it's the taxes that come with it are a pain