Due to currency concerns, many countries banned the use of cryptocurrencies for any purpose. They now seem powerless as transactions are ongoing beyond their control. Why do they think they can censor activities beyond their sphere of influence? Bitcoin is changing the demography of wealth, giving some people an escape route from poverty, and establishing those in the middle class that keyed into it.
Today, latecomers like myself are ruing lost opportunities. This is because we can attest to the economic leverage crytocurrencies especially bitcoin has given to our pairs who saw today, yesterday. We proclaimed it was a scam like MMM and other schemes. We waited in vain to see people regret putting their finances into bitcoin, and have not decided to join them since we couldn't "beat" them. There were warnings from various governments about the unpredictable of Cryptos little didn't we know that these government agencies have persons who were already trading in the "scam".
The government of my country was willing to take any measure to impoverish it's citizens: refusing to create jobs opportunities, complex bank loaning policies, and outright embezzlement of public funds. So, when people saw a future in cryptocurrencies that will take off government influence, those that has foresight jumped unto it. Though, it was a risk, they took it wholeheartedly and today, they are ambassadors with proven results.