Under the tax law of almost all democracies Bitcoin has been arbitrarily defined as a commodity- one that is KYCed, tracked and traced and citizens are allowed to use as a speculative commodity. If however citizens choose to use Bitcojn as a MoE almost all jurisdictions require that to comply with their tax laws the person spending Bitcoin account for the difference in its value from the time it was acquired to when it is disposed of in the purchase transaction. This makes it extremely cumbersome and inconvenient for citizens of most countries to use Bitcoin as a MoE- although it is not outright banned, it does infer complex transactions recording and calculations upon relative value and ultimately the payment of tax on any capital gains enjoyed by the citizen. This is the law and although in practice it is not always enforced, most people in most countries where Bitcoin can be legally used as a MoE these highly inconvenient tax obligations do exist. In most autocracies, Like Thailand, Russia, China, Turkey etc= MoE use of Bitcoin is outright banned. Bitcoin when used as a MoE is a potential threat to the fiat operators hegemony over MoE and they do not want that so have created these outright bans or in more 'liberal democracies' sly but comprehensive obstruction. Most Bitcoiners struggle to even understand the nature and scale of the problem and the extent to which their governments have slyly obstructed use of the P2P payments protocol.