I was in Mexico at a Satoshi roundtable pre-pandemic sometime and one of the well known technical attendees graciously posed the blockchain-embedded CP question and answer to me almost in one breath…letting me cogitate for just enough seconds to realize any government could embed data and declare the entire project to be illegal due to illegal numbers…and thus block data is obfuscated on disk to keep virus scanners from being triggered…

At the end of the day, we must agree that numbers aren’t illegal: it’s what people do with those numbers that could be illegal. This is no different than cars, cash, guns, or pharmaceuticals.