They control: The money printer. All legal businesses(even bitcoin ones) through laws and regulations. The average persons ability to save. They can exclude mass amounts of people from obtaining bitcoin very easily. Just cause inflation and like magic, you've now cut off the 70% of Americans living check to check today, from ever saving, let alone buying and saving into bitcoin. All while you still control all the places (businesses) one could even buy bitcoin at, and the money printer to boot. I hate being the doom and gloom guy, but I'm seeing us marching into our own defeat being happy and clapping about government backing bitcoin, in any fashion. In my 34yrs on earth, I can't think of a single thing government has gotten involved in, that's lead to a BETTER FOR EVERYONE outcome.