The US and Chinese governments were not alone.
Every government on Earth had watched the same livestream. Every government had felt the same word arrive in the same place simultaneously. Every government had spent the hours since running the same calculations and arriving at the same wall.
The reactions varied in tone and speed but not in direction. The direction was universal.
Ban it. Restrict it. Criminalize the platform before it launches. Find the legal basis, construct the framework, issue the directive, and stop LucidNet Finance from showing their citizens what was actually happening inside their national finances.
The impulse was understandable. It was also, as every legal team in every relevant ministry had concluded within hours of the announcement, almost entirely unworkable.
