"It's not that a government has the ability to ban Bitcoin from their country, I think it's closer to the opposite: A country only...
"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core."...
"The market of bitcoin holders will ultimately expand to be larger than the size of any single country, and direct exchange will be possible...