Governments can restrict how their citizens access and use Bitcoin - blocking exchanges, imposing heavy taxes, or making trading illegal, but they cannot delete the Bitcoin network itself. The blockchain runs across tens of thousands of nodes distributed across every continent. China has issued comprehensive bans multiple times, and Bitcoin has shrugged off each one. What government crackdowns do cause is short-term price volatility and shifts in mining geography, as seen when Chinese miners relocated to the US, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere after the 2021 ban. The more interesting long-term question is whether a country that bans Bitcoin simply disadvantages its own citizens while the rest of the world adopts it freely.
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