Spoken like someone who has not been caught by Washtrading.
Market manipulation is not new to me, it can also happen to stock trading. I admit that I'm HODLING because of loss, but regulations can end to centralization even further.
Imho this is incorrect and unfair. Crypto is against banks, not really against governments.
Regulations may be boring, but far too many people got used to live under government's protection/regulation and just can't take care of themselves. Many others fool themselves they can until they find somebody with unexpectedly big (financial) power that can swallow them instantly or just play with them.
Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous, and there are other coins out there that are completely anonymous. But why would they want to be anonymous? It's not that they want to hide themselves from banks.
You don't regulate cryptos, the government can do something about the ICO industry but not those established crypto-exchanges. There are some centralized exchanges that is trying to create a decentralized exchange to protect its users from exchange-hacking related issues.