The government isn't going to make that realization. It cannot make that realization and remain the government. It will always seek to control anything that didn't originate from within itself and crush what it cannot control. We want crypto to go mainstream, yes, but we really want it to stay underground and spread horizontally rather than rise vertically and seem a flood to the untrained (or jaundiced eye)
The Russians getting out ahead of it is not a good thing, IMO.