The recent UK Government consultation on the regulatory regime for cryptoassets potentially offers several different answers to this question, and it’s worth looking more closely at what might lie behind the curtain.
With a little allowance for poetic licence, there are, perhaps, seven good reasons to regulate an activity:
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