I think i will follow my country.  If the government banned it and followed by full scale tracking of people using it, I can say it will affect majority of the users.  Unless a person is ok with working underground.  They will stop using bitcoin because of fear of being jailed by using it.  Banning without penalty will simply make the users of bitcoin laugh at that policy, but with penalty then most of us will stop. One thing for sure, people who are involved in illegal activities won't stop