Well, it's not exactly a lie to say that crypto can and has been used for illegal activities, it's just that the argument is an appeal to stupid people who'd accept that line of reasoning as a justification for a ban on (or heavy regulation of) crypto. Incidentally, that same argument has been made since the early days of bitcoin and I'm surprised that a world leader is still repeating it.
That is true. What I noticed are the central banks, while also bitcoin unfriendliness can be directly from the government, the anti-bitcoiners, full of bitcoin criticisms. Fiat has been used to sponsor terrorism, used in money laundering, nothing bitcoin is used for that fiat has not been used for before, all because they are all valuable and easy to spend or transfer. They are supporting their fiat but against bitcoin.
Let's accept it. Crypto is a threat against the governments. Would you turn your other cheek if someone slapped you in the face? Not everybody believes in that crap and I am pretty positive China don't too.
Bitcoin was said to be scam when it was created, but later becoming acceptable and mayy governments of the world accepts bitcoin now. I am saying this to imply that crypto is a threat to the government is not entirely true, only few countries ban it.
If a government willfully likes crypto then either their own local currency has already failed ( which is true for El Salvador) or... crypto isn't a threat at all.
El Salvador made bitcoin a legal tender does not mean they are the only bitcoin-friendly country, there are countries like US, Canada, many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa that are bitcoin-friendly.
If crypto isn't a threat to the governments, then it means it doesn't work!
If a government support cryptocurrencies, crypto companies will be in such countries, there would be other developments. Cryptocurrencies are not threat, but the government are newly exposed to it is the reason for ban while some could be because of politics and maybe religion.
Why would any government support a currency that wants to kill them? Don't make sense to me.
How would cryptocurrencies kill the government? Gold and many other assets did not kill government. Why cryptocurrencies haven't kill them all in countries that are friendly with it? They are progressing and also bitcoin is helping those that hold it.