> Regulators absolutely love blockchain btw. A public ledger with a machine readable consistent interface that everyone's activity can be data mined through? Hell yes.

Indeed they do. As long as they are able to see everyone's transactions and also identify and trace up illegal transactions easily, why would they ban it? Of course they won't hence they instead went after the privacy coins and will keep a compliant few that will survive regulations.

> Anyone who thought digital currency was going to do anything to help privacy has been smoking the highest quality cocaine.

Correct, and crypto is here to stay, just like spyware and closed-source software is. Anyone who thinks that crypto or closed-source software would go away entirely or having all of it get banned completely 100% is also already on the highest quality of cocaine or LSD to dedicate their whole life to try stopping all of it completely.