[SadWebDeveloper]

You forget to add A and B scenarios to your conclusions....

A) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites leave the country for the next unregulated paradise.

B) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites overthrown the government due to strict policies regarding free trade.

The government can't enforce a laws by itself it needs his citizens to abide by those rules.

[_Codemonkeyism]

The Venezuelan government killed [1] 163 people who believed in scenario B.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests

[SadWebDeveloper]

American Revolutionary War death toll 25,000 people who believed in scenario B

[MadSudaca]

Venezuelan citizens are not armed as many in the US.

[kylell]

The Venezuelan government days are numbered