Some governments and banks have been trying to do an axe job on Bitcoin for a while. Obviously, the crap they sometimes come out with is at least, unhelpful and at best damaging to Bitcoin in the short term - but Bitcoin is in many ways immune to much of the interference, and it gets more immune when it gets exposed to some of these antics. When a country tells its citizens what they cant have - they usually want more of it. When the world sees that Bitcoin continues on despite all the FUD, it sits up and takes notice and begins to believe that this Bitcoin is an unstoppable force.

Sure it would be easier if the naysayers capitulated, but that would be too easy.