“Voluntary regulation” is an oxymoron.
> Also, we must not forget that unregulated blockchains are being used as a bridge to transfer money between the legal and the illegal businesses.
Nor must we forget that many countries, like Argentina, make it illegal for people to save up for retirement in currencies that are less inflationary than the national currency.
In these countries, this makes saving up in bitcoins illegal activity. But it should be clear who’s committing a crime against whom (the government against the people).
Bitcoin was built for exactly this purpose: to fight against government regulation whose purpose is only the survival of government at the expense of the people, as opposed to being a service to the people.