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 the main question what has been done at all change it? 

Majority of the comments on my post with conclusions “let them ban it and then we will see”. 

I truly believe it is a huge mistake and misunderstanding of the consequences. 

Everyone who said in the past - let’s do not care about human rights, how bad regulations affects human rights and just move to other jurisdictions at the end of their experience understood - regimes able to reach them in the every place in the world. 

Same here: Norwegian regulatory standards will be used as an example for the EU single market, through OECD globally. To prove it more context - Swedish government implemented what Norway is doing right now. So what is the result? Sweden is pushing restrictive regulations against bitcoin mining at the EU level. 

#Bitcoin  is the same human right as others, it is people behind the technology, its developers, investors,  miners and end-users. Bitcoin is not getting funds from the authoritarian world, simply because it is a threat to dictatorship by default. So why you should allow to restrict it while you have all privileges to impact your regulators and change their approach? 

It is a matter of responsibility, investment of your time and resources, just like US bitcoin community is doing, and achieving significant success. Without just being complaining or being ignorant.