Since they failed in twisting the minds of the public that bitcoin was fake and scamming scheme, they've diverted to other dimension just to hinder the bitcoin investors and those vendors accepting bitcoin for payments with a allegedly claims that bitcoin is affecting the economy growth by having effect on the devaluing of the fiat.
The easiest answer to this is that the government does not want the performance built hard by them not to be followed by its citizens who now know the direction of security and switch to a new one, namely BTC, meaning that their citizens are considered to participate in undermining the financial system and weakening their role in it.
Because we know that the Bitcoin blockchain network is very helpful in simplifying operations between individuals with various elements as well as being able to streamline in terms of transactions and this is considered to eliminate many points that are considered beneficial to the government in terms of cash receipts for the country, the government should be soft also in reading it because human nature is increasingly chased more and more run and avoid. Isn't it??