[rplacd]

The title's misleading: Bitcoin was never sanctioned in the first place - the laws presumably whitelist, rather than blacklist.

I don't think the political will exists, in either case - the political jockeying that currently stands in for the entire totality of both policy and political discourse doesn't leave much space for a quiet and novel campaign like this - I suspect, in fact, that the only thing that has fallen into the above category within the last ten years are CITES violations (drug stings should probably be credited to the DEA.)

[Hermel]

They wrote "due to lack of existing applicable laws", indicating that there is indeed whitelisting at work.

Normally, everything not expressely illegal should be allowed - and not the other way around.