FYI: Poloniex will no longer be offering services to residents of New York ...

If nobody saw this coming, you're incredibly naive.
Governments may praise crypto all they want, but in the end it challenges their positions of authority by undermining the fraud that is FIAT. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg for things to come:
http://www.coindesk.com/ny-bitcoin-business-45-days-bitlicense/Can you expand on your assumptions?
I don't see how it challenges their authority, FIAT is just a way to trade value for goods/services just like crypto is trying to do.
No it's not. Fiat is a tool of the zionists/illuminati to control (economic instability, scaring people, financing both sides of wars), rob (illegal taxes) and enslave people (debts and interest - interest was invented by Jews. Interest is a form of injustice and it therefore forbidden by God -> God encourages trade and charity).
Not sure if serious or sarcastic, either way lol.