The centralized Bank of Canada has went forward and made the bold claim that "Digital Currencies Will Not Be Safe Without Government Intervention" and they feel that without government intervention / support none of these cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin will be able to thrive and be used. The claim does make sense in the fact that governments will be the only people that can fully allow a currency to be adopted without an issue.

What are your thoughts on Bitcoin needing government intervention / centralization to survive?

Article - https://news.bitcoin.com/digital-currencies-need-government-intervention-bank-canada/

Governments believe the anal sex is not safe without government intervention.  This is the raison d'etre for governments - to intervene where they are neither needed nor useful.  People who work for the government want to 'intervene' in all of your matters - anal sex and money and others.  Tell governments to go fuck themselves.  It is important to resist these stupid fucks every step of the way.

Which government, don't tell me USA? I wish them good luck let them try to do whatever they think that they can do, people know everything about the risks involved when they enter crypto(bitcoin) area. we are here to escape from their interventions and stay hidden from their radars.

Bank of canada can't just control all bitcoin transactions going in and out of canada but what they can control is just the trading platform that are operating in canada along with bitcoin merchants. They can't centralized bitcoin and they may just limit the amount of bitcoin a person can exchange or use in a day/week/month.

I think the only reason that want to intervene is they want to know whats going on, and they want to make some money off of it. It's rather simple how government work, they interact when their is money to be made.

I guess they're just attempting to find someone new in the world to tax to attempt to make up for the 639 billion their in debt at the moment, least it's not as much as the U.S. with 19 trillion.

It sounds to me they are getting scared of how bitcoin has become to big for them to ignore any longer.
I bet you the banks were just thinking if they ignored the problem of how bitcoin is being a rivaling factor to their bottom line then it would simply just go away and die from obscurity.
Now that is the case with it reaching near the all time high and probably surpass that by the end of the week at best.
They are calling in for regualtion now because the want help from the government knowing they can not handle it now that it has gotten to big for them to handle it any longer. And no, a problem for you won't just simply go away and hoping that it will just die off. You have to cut the head off the serpent or it will come back stronger than ever before!
Didn't you learn anything from those medieval movies growing up as kid ceo of the bank of Canada?

Government officials think that without them nothing will work that is why they always try to make the government bigger and charge greater taxes so they can fix things but this is not the case society can do very well with a very small government but try to sell that idea to those conceited public officials.

They want to centralize a decentralized currency. It is clear that the Bank of Canada do not understand what bitcoin is. And they want to intervene? How can they intervene if they do not understand what bitcoin stands for. They will make more harm than good.

it will never happen...

people always claimed that china were the "owner" of bitcoin, saying it were centralized there(thanks to mining+volume on exchanges) but even with pboc intervention bitcoin is raising again.
of course governments will always have some power, but it will be never enough to really control/regulate bitcoin.

The tunes they said like Chinese government spokesman said, it is non-sense, if bitcoin is government censored and centralized, the bitcoin loses its original vision.