Worldwide, especially in my place, must sell it for profit rather than always keep it!
The government always forbids the use and play bitcoin so that it can not grow fully potential in my place. Surely it remains an advantage if there is a transaction rotation for bitcoin in my country to live.
I think it is better if you will not be using bitcoin since you said that the government forbids the use of bitcoin, it other words, they banned it in your country.
People sell their bitcoins because they need money or they want to get their profits out of their saved bitcoin.
The OP can still use bitcoins despite the government ban in his country.I don`t think that there`s any way for the authorities to catch him,unless he uses some cryptocurrency exchange platform that requires ID verification.
There are a lot of ways to catch a bitcoin user because it is not really that anonymous as some threads and researches proven it.
Obviously, people tend to sell their bitcoin because:
1. They want to get the equivalent fiat and use it as they pleases.
2. They want to use the fiat that they had sell to buy again bitcoin (well some of the people who wants to have a great profit do this especially when the price of bitcoin dumps)