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 Sweden already trying to soft ban them with energy pricing hikes/taxes, seems Bitcoin is no longer welcome in Scandinavia  
 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.