The cypherpunk movement is a hilarious LARP. Governments try not to disabuse them of their fantasies more than necessary because it risks spoiling the honeypot, but every so often the kid gloves come off (Silk Road)
The best they could do with the myriad impaired mutations of bitcoin was make a glorified internet casino, so that’s what they went with. Meanwhile they marginalized and stigmatized everything about the original and still only legitimate project
Bitcoin was triaged and determined to be a threat in its very early days. Seeds were planted for an industry to grow around it that would guide it towards a workable place within the existing economic order
Unlike BTC, BSV really is a store of value. People joke about how it’s a stablecoin, but it’s true, and this is good. BSV holds its value well because it is supported by actual utility