Indeed. The war between government and crypto was started quite long ago, but the real one has started this year in 2018 because governments has finally come ahead and shown concerns relating bitcoin and other crypto currencies and are prepared to take legal actions against it and regulate it.
Many countries mentioned bitcoin and crypto currencies in their budget speech and discussed about it in the council meetings. There have been actions of regulating crypto exchanges, launching of ICOs, banning of crypto ads from social platform and many more. Even those countries that sat back and watched for many years and now getting into bitcoin and trying to either ban it or regulate it.