They can't kill the chain, so they so far 1. tried to convince people not to use it, 2. make it expensive to trade, 3. try to convince people it's in their best interest to keep it crippled so it'll be a sterilized
virtual casino chips used for speculation (which is good enough for most people involved in it), 4. encourage people to move into a 2nd layer which promises too-good-to-be-true super
tech which will bring them some time in the future years from now immense riches if they only wait patiently, 5. get better user experience in tech which isn't really