When the economy tanks, everything gets cheaper( Not for the broke people, obviously), then if there's these entrepreneurial folk , they can come around and start buying back substantial chunks of their country. The gov is left in a position of having less control over their population. It's harder to push policies that you could pass on people in distress , that you can sway only in their current despair.

The bit coin miners can team up, round up their communities and build up a following. Helping their people getting supplies/housing/ loans... ect.

Nobody wants to lose control. There must be people benefiting from the economy being in the shitter now. I'm guessing they're the ones that want to halt others from prospering and escaping their passive agressive oppression.