The formal government didn’t just ban bitcoin directly in my country, but I will call what he did as a ban because he instructed the central bank of my country to lock all accounts that has history of crypto transactions, so he banned crypto indirectly, but the current government lifted the ban since their is a change in government.

When the central banks were locking accounts, people were so careful then, but even as people were not making transactions with bitcoin, lots of people were still accumulating coins then, even as it was done hidden, and when the central banks were locking accounts, bitcoin awareness was just increasing, and even people that don’t know about bitcoin before started knowing about it, and some people started doing more research about bitcoin, and they were investing.

Even if the government bans crypto, people will still be accumulating coins hidden, because they know the government is against bitcoin just for their own selfish interest, and there is nothing more.