Why don't the Indian population just stick up for itself and protest on these issues what you all scared of.
USA, UK, france and many others protest to get their rights corrected why so many Indians just take changes lying down?
I don't think Bitcoin is
that popular in India. Localbitcoins only shows
200-300 BTC worth of volume per week. Bitnodes shows only
29 reachable nodes in India.
There probably wouldn't be enough people affected by this for mass protests. Maybe that's the point -- trying to nip it in the bud before it catches on.
you are probably right but those are not good indicators for popularity of bitcoin in different countries. for example localbitcoins is not popular in most countries, and the people usually go elsewhere to meet up and trade altcoins. as for full nodes, people in third world countries are usually using SPV wallets and web wallets instead of running a full node due to slower internet speed, lower spec computers,...