I think what many of us don't understand is government can only control access not ownership. While they can make it harder for us to trade bitcoin through banks or local exchanges, they definitely cannot be able to stop the peer to peer transfer among other people and the private wallets and this is one of the best reasons why bitcoin is regarded as the beauty of decentralization in bitcoin as it exists on the internet somewhere in the cloud and not on any country's border line. Even countries like China where they have severe and stricter bans, people are still trading bitcoin quitlely using VPNs and decentralized exchanges or even WhatsApp groups. So the government policies and politics can only push bitcoin further underground but it cannot completely eliminate it.

^ Gov thinks about itself and its citizens, not about prospects of getting as much of BTC as they can.

They are no retailers - they are an entity that is above all the others on their turf.

A ban may be done in different ways not necessarily relating to the internet. In those cases VPNs are just masking the usage but are not the method that is used to bypass the ban. Peer to peer trading is how you bypass it if the ban relates to exchange services.

This is not a real argument. In a market that is liquid like Bitcoin there will always be sellers. No matter what price Bitcoin reaches and no matter how many Bitcoin governments want to buy, they will find sellers. This would push the price up but still there will never be a time when there are no sellers.

This is incorrect, governments are printing money all the time. You are confusing money with value. They can't print value but they can print any amount of money that they want.

They have a lot more power than you state here. The thing is that there is no government that is really trying to enforce these things. If they tried to ban and enforce bans then you would see things in those countries change. Has any country criminalized the holding of Bitcoin? They have not, but if they did and tried enforcing that you'd see a different scenario playing out. Still none of this gives them power over Bitcoin, they have power over the people. That is the big difference.

KYC is all about eliminating privacy and freedom. All in an attempt to track and trace crypto users. Even if you're a law-abiding citizen, just by complying your KYC, you'd be opening the doors for the government to track all of your financial activities. They can make a link from the exchange in which you've bought/sold Bitcoin, back to your public addresses.

The only way to achieve true financial freedom is by making use of non-custodial wallets and protocols/services. It will be somewhat-challenging to buy/sell BTC this way (through a DEX or P2P exchange) due to low liquidity, but at least, it's better something than nothing. Since most people have nothing to hide, they will keep using CEXs (short for centralized exchanges) no matter what. The government will be able to control the market to manipulate prices to their hearts' content. But the core Blockchain network? That's another subject. Let's hope Bitcoin stays decentralized and censorship-resistant forever.

What the government is doing now, especially for those who ban bitcoin, actually for me is not to make bitcoin controllable but they are trying to slow down the current bitcoin rate a little.

The government must know that bitcoin will not be controlled in any way but by doing some regulations they make it a temporary hold so that bitcoin is not too fast in terms of movement, especially for value issues.
They can only do this because even if they have power bitcoin will continue to run and no one will be able to hold it. The government only tries to minimize but it obviously cannot be done for long.

Seems like you’re missing the point, printing money excessively will only lead the fiat lose it value and cause inflation…the government wouldn’t dare do that because they know that if they do so, their fiat will lose and and bitcoin will become more powerful especially against their currency.

Bitcoin can be regulated by the government but talking about control..the government can’t control bitcoin, and even if the government had purchase lots of bitcoin maybe 5% of the total supply _{I mean that tge highest they can possibly get} they still can’t control Bitcoin , they can only control the price and not the network.

No exceptions. While the USD is the global standard currency, that doesn't mean the US can print money indiscriminately, whether to buy bitcoin or spend it on other things. That would also cause inflation and their economy would be damaged like any other country.

A simple example, if the US prints 1 trillion to buy bitcoin from the market (ETFs, whales, retail investors...). That means there will be more money circulating in the economy, and those who sell bitcoin will receive USD and then they use that money to buy other assets, goods. That would cause prices of goods and other assets to rise abnormally. Then, the imbalance between supply and demand will cause inflation to rise and even prolong.

It is no coincidence that the US public debt has grown to 37 trillion dollars and this number continues to increase every day. The reason is that the government borrows money and spends it lavishly. Meanwhile, it is no coincidence that after the Covid pandemic caused inflation to rise to 10%, the Fed had to raise interest rates and implement QT policy for the past three years. As far as I know, by doing so they have withdrawn money from the economy and the total asset runoff has reached 2.5 trillion USD. That has caused inflation to gradually fall to just over 3% today.

If they don't raise interest rates, don't implement QT and continue to print money, their economy will surely collapse.

You literally need real assets. Don't forget that Bitcoin is a digital asset and an investment. If you don't have fiat then it will be impossible for you to keep buying Bitcoin. Don't get emotional about Bitcoin, it is a volatile asset. Use discretionary funds to invest in Bitcoin. None of us can predict the price, its price may fall as much as you expected. Although the possibility of price increase is very high due to limited supply, you should be prepared to manage the risk.

When there is a shortage of money supply, the government prints fiat and creates inflation, but Bitcoin is free from its influence, so there is less possibility of depreciation, but there is a close relationship between Bitcoin pumping and dumping and the global economy. As digital assets increase, keep the amount of fiat sufficient.

Doesn’t work that way. A government could print trillions and try to buy Bitcoin,but every dollar spent raises the price up. If they print $10 trillion to buy Bitcoin at $100k, the price might sky rocket to $1million before they acquire even 5% of supply. Holders win; all they have to do is offload at moon prices. The government ends up with expensive Bitcoin, but the network keeps running.

Those who invested emotionally are the ones who have suffered most of the time. I had a friend who is not in the crypto world at the moment but he was eager to buy this bitcoin at one time. Although, for the sake of being my friend, I advised him to be patient and see where the market goes. Since you will not invest by maintaining DCA, if the market trend goes down a little then if you can buy, you will be able to make some profit in a short time. Then he thought that I was giving him false assurances so he invested without hesitation. A few days later, when the market gave a small down, he panicked and left bitcoin with a small loss. Bitcoin is not an investment and crypto space that is driven by emotions. If you invest by analyzing it wisely, that is what happens and if you invest with emotions, it is natural that you will lose.