Being explicitely declared illegal is not required if excluded by structure.
Are you aware that all banks, globally, routinely freeze and close bank accounts known to be involved with crypto-currencies, regardless of the consequences and risk to life?
Isn’t that a crime, if survival is put at risk by that action?
We have to wonder the meaning of “illegal” when we see, and experience these things.
When (Not if, but when) it happens to you, it is a rude awakening, and you need to have alternatives.
Bitcoin, and other cryptos are used when nothing else works for you.
You maybe don’t notice in mainstream Norway, in the background, the problem of continually spiralling global debt.
But for sure you must be aware of the global pollution problem.
Both are intricately related.
Both are manifestations of an energy debt to our planet.
Neither are sustainable of course.
So the function of money must change.
Bitcoin, and all kinds of proof of work crypto, do actually solve the core problem of spiralling energy debt.
Its importance can't be overstated.
Money can’t continue in its current form alone, otherwise we go extinct, along with most other species of life, by our own hand.
Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency, is something growing, always growing, like grass grows in nature with time. The apparent price might be fluctuating with markets, but its adoption continues, new wallet by new wallet, newly minted coin with newly minted coin.
Of course Bitcoin, and all manner of other cryptocurrencies are used for consumer to trader transactions in places where the fiat currencies have already failed.
Our mainstream news outlets, driven by structural forces that work to try to maintain the structure which is unsustainable, don’t tell us much about that, but of course it is happening.
If we know that all fiat is failing, then we are equipping ourselves with at least the knowledge to practically use whatever else can possibly be used.
I hope my information helps a little there.
Here is a deeper, and yet much simpler dig:
