In life, I believe that everything is in stages and once a certain stage is successfully completed, we would be looking forward for another stage of that event or project.

Bitcoin has actually past the stage of speculating if the government can shut it down or not. If the government actually has the power to shut bitcoin, they would have done it before it could turn 10 years old.

But for bitcoin to last up to this time, even when the government of the top countries are against bitcoin and making efforts to burning every bitcoin activity in their country including mining, it therefore means that they don't have the ability to ban bitcoin. So we should at this point respect bitcoin and be talking something of higher security concerns and not government of the word collaborating to ban Bitcoin.

This seizure and high-handedness of governments across nations used to scare the shit out of me in 2017 as a noob. I was easily apprehensive whenever I read anything negative about Bitcoin and the wavering policies and bad press from government. It was until after the Chinese ban in August or so of that same year (2017) that I braced up because I realized then that there was nothing a few people could do to terminate Bitcoin. So, don't fret.

I read somewhere that it would take at least 51% of the miners to agree on a particular thing before anything that could disrupt Bitcoin would be effected. Even though your concern is reasonable here I doubt if that can be achieved.

I think the biggest moves by the government to discourage bitcoin is going after the exchanges like they are doing currently since they know they cannot directly hit bitcoins. Bitcoin is going nowhere because regardless of any new development against it, new alternative solutions will be discovered for bitcoins to continue to be in use.

Bitcoin is going nowhere.

Sug Knight walked away with his crime in the 80s because he is a black man and he is targeting other black men to grow is rich dream, the law kept silent because they never believe that black rappers can become a success, they left the man to do what he wants and all black rappers should keep getting rid of themselves, the law don't care.

That's similar to Bitcoin, they are so sure that it will fail at one point in time because they don't understand Bitcoin, they underestimated it because, why would anyone trust Bitcoin with their hard earned money just because someone named Nakamoto promised them decentralization, they must have thought it's a joke.

The best time to have killed Bitcoin was after it's release, today it's too late.

Mining pools are not a single entity.

There are thousands of different entities which all mine under the banner of the same pool. Take AntPool for example, with approximately 21% of the current hashrate. If you want to mine on AntPool, you can head over to https://www.antpool.com/ and follow the instructions to join the pool. The same is true of pretty much every other pool.

If a government comes along and shuts down AntPool, then every miner who was pointing their equipment at AntPool can just point it to a different pool instead. If the AntPool operator starts doing something shady such as censoring some transactions, then every miner who was pointing their equipment at AntPool can just point it to a different pool instead. Even if every mining pool in the world was shut down, then miners can run their own software and solo mine. If one country bans mining entirely (which already happened fairly recently with China), then those miners will just move elsewhere.

The only way to stop bitcoin mining altogether is not only to ban bitcoin mining in every country in the world but also for the governments to spend a lot of money to enforce that ban and hunt down "underground" miners which is never going to happen, but even if it did it still wouldn't be completely effective.

If big players and the governments of some countries collaborated to influence or control Bitcoin mining, they could theoretically exert some degree of control over the network.  However, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin and its resistance to censorship offer some protection against such a scenario.

 Bitcoin's strength lies in its distributed peer-to-peer network, where each node in the network participates in verifying transactions and overall system security.  Even though the big players could acquire a significant share of the mining power, the independent nodes would still remain present and continue to participate in the consensus process.

Yeah, it's crazy how they're turning exchanges into these complex mazes where you have to solve puzzles just to buy or sell some crypto. It's like they want to make it a challenge for us to access our own money. Can't they just keep it simple?

That's the whole point. Centralized exchanges want you to leave your money with them, because they can use that money to generate more profits for themselves while the customers take on all the risks of loss in the event of poor management, scams, bankruptcies, hacks, etc.

You want to make it easy to access your own money? Keep it in your own wallet. Doesn't get simpler than that.

I think the only power they have right now is on the centralized exchanges and as we can see they are not letting them go and will not slack off once they found something bad about the exchanges and they will not hesitate to file a lawsuit against it. That is why it is always recommended that you always have a non-custodial wallet to highly secured your funds because centralized exchanges are not safe if you want to store huge amounts of cryptocurrencies there because they can be held at any time once their owner is proven guilty on something related to cryptocurrencies.