Just gave a 35-min online talk + Q&A to 115 financial regulators from countries including US, UK, Australia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Uganda (over 20 nations in total) about Bitcoin...
Cool thing is even if they might not want these tools for their people, or might object to their opponent's use of them, deep down everyone knows someday they might be on the outside and a target for the tools of repression should their opponents get in.