Comment by lkrubner

You call this "censorship-resistance" but it seems to be "law-resistance." This is a point that critics of crypto have been making for awhile: crypto's only use-case seems to be to avoid the law. At least in the USA, the courts have typically granted wide latitude to technologies that have a mix of both legal and illegal uses, but crypto seems to only have illegal uses, so it looks more and more like one of those technologies where the courts often allow strict regulation or outright bans. Especially in the democratic nations, where the laws have the legitimacy granted by popular representation in the political process, there is no reason to tolerate a technology if that technology exists solely to evade the law -- there must be some clear legal purpose for the technology.