Is bitcoin banned in China, Thailand, Russia, USA or Argentina? Who knows?
Can you move your money out of the bank at HSBC? From Mt. Gox? At Chase bank? At Lloyds? In China? Probably!
There's a lot of systemic failures and cryptocurrency bans, followed by retractions and wind-back announcements of the exact same events.
What's the big idea here, maybe get everyone used to not knowing whether the financial system is working on a given day, then one time it just stays broken for a few days... then for the following week...
Will bitcoin get banned, unbanned, then slightly less banned (mumbled from behind someones hands...), then finally perma-banned? And yet simultaneously, the only money system that's still functional? Is this the death throes, or just the best way of letting everyone know that financial system 1.0 is dead (i.e. not announcing it per se, just sort of demonstrating it...)