Waiting for government approval shouldn’t stand near Bitcoin

I've been going deep on internet censorship circumvention for authoritarian countries. the uncomfortable thing I learned: VPNs are mostly a marketing story at this point. centralized servers, known traffic fingerprints, and a business model that can't survive a government with patience and DPI infrastructure https://en.zona.media/article/2026/04/07/russian_internet_censorship_2026