Of the entire population of bitcoin users around the world, only 1.3% of people who use bitcoin as an exchange / payment tool, this is quite sad. There are many factors that make people reluctant to use bitcoin as a payment / exchange tool, one of which is a government ban and legislation in every country.
Yes and that's how it is supposed to be. These possible alternative is banned for some countries, sadly. It is because of that people take this as an opportunity to evade taxes in their profits. But on the good ol' great side, there are some countries that regulated these and its technical aspects/components like the mining part in Russia.