Curious if they will shutdown the various ponzi-schemes as well, for example OneCoin. Usually those are backed by senior government officials or army guys. No pitty with the greedy fools who invested in it.
Blocking legit crypto-currency might not be a smart move. Japan and other early adoptors have a huge advantage IF cryptocurrency (not necessarely Bitcoin) will exist next to fiat/gold/stock markets. Right now due to the volatility Bitcoin is more useful as savings account than a form of currency. Fees and transaction times are too high. Curious to see what prices are going to do once futures are being traded. It will be a bumpy ride....
Governments and banking are in general not positive because they both can be severely disrupted by this new technology. In a world running on cryptocurrency the banking system can no longer create money out of thin air, they are no longer needed to store/transfer money, there is no need to exchange currencies (while traveling abroad), anonymous currencies could hide wealth from taxation, etc.
Your best best is to hedge investments and as such make sure you have at least a small portion invested in cryptocurrency.
Most people seem to believe they need to buy a full Bitcoin however that is not the case.
Each Bitcoin is divisible to the 8th decimal place, so each Bitcoin can be split into 100,000,000 units.
Each unit of Bitcoin, or 0.00000001 Bitcoin, is called a satoshi. A Satoshi is the smallest unit of Bitcoin.
There is a maximum number of Bitcoins to be mined but nothing to be scared of as it will be reached somewhere by 2140.....
Better safe than sorry.