http://www.coindesk.com/beijing-summit-bitcoin-ban-no-one-cared/
Only if people missed the point...but I think the government is in a screwed position. It's not a threat now so no reason or grounds to ban it...and by the time it starts being one, too many businesses will already be doing business in bitcoin...governments can no more ban bitcoin than they can ban the internet. They can get all iron fist over exchanges like ISPs but all they'd do is create a stronger underground they have zero control over.
I agree the btc genie's out of the bottle. They can flex but at the end of the day, they can't do shit about it but fear monger...and even that's pretty impotent. Had they been "smart" (sort of) they could've treated it like the Liberty Dollar and confused people who didn't know much about it, and done it 4 years ago. Instead they called it property, assets, and well...they legitimized it. The have acknowledged, the usg anyway, that it's treated as a legit asset...so they can't turn around and outlaw it because that would mean they have to admit they were wrong...
...and when have you ever seen any government step up and go, woops, we screwed up, webad!?