[Toine]

There are many _really_ naive statements in this post, and it honestly feels like it was written by someone who has no deep historical/economic knowledge. The most obvious :

"But I believe there exists a middle ground where the government can get a lot of what it wants, and cryptocurrency users can get a lot of what they want too."

The government wants a lot of control of a lot of things. It accepts giving some freedom to people, like the color of your hair, because there's no consequence (for now at least). However, on the list of the top 100 things it would NEVER, EVER, EVER give up control of, I think currency is in the top 3, probably n°2 after the military. Like I said in another comment, people generally vastly underestimate how powerful the control of currency is.

Crypto-enthusiats want 1 thing : getting rid of the government in the monetary system. Apart from the fact that it is, in itself, both a naive and dangerous dream, there's absolutely no way the government (more specifically the Fed) will ever give up even .1% of control over it.

Considering all of this, I have a REALLY hard time imagining a middle ground. Crypto-people will not get what they want.