Well sure, there&#x27;s a &quot;libertarian&quot; angle and there&#x27;s a &quot;pragmatic&quot; angle here. I don&#x27;t want to be beating a dead horse but with the way things are shaping up for bitcoin things are getting pretty centralized and as a result easy to control.<p>As for being &quot;outside the bounds of politics and the law&quot; when it really comes down to it you can only go so far especially if there&#x27;s something as sensitive and highly visible as &quot;money&quot; is involved. 
Even in the reasonably &quot;soft&quot; western countries there are subpoenas, cease and desist orders etc. All of that can be set in motion by the government who has the final say.
In China - they just disconnect the whole country from the internet :)