Honestly I feel like the US gov is going to try to ban mining and implement CBDC. In the meantime, more and more people (especially top economists/financial minds, and tech people) are going to see why bitcoin is important/inevitable. There's going to be a fracture. It'll either break the US as the leading world power, or it'll break the political party that opposes bitcoin and the US maintains its position by being one of the first world powers to fully embrace it. I have no idea how optimistic to be about any of that.

More specifically for bitcoin, I think there's going to be a major dip when the US tries to ban it (*possibly $10k or lower), but it'll be too late, and a lot of people are going to buy the dip. That'll be game over against the fight for bitcoin, because that will signal to politicians that support bitcoin is an easy win. And then the price is never going back down. That's why I think there's a chance the government fight against bitcoin will necessarily destroy us....

No matter what happens, I don't think the transition is going to be pretty.

*Also, side note, the moment Dave Ramsey endorses bitcoin, the entire Bible Belt is going with him, and the price is never dropping below that bump again lol