After so many similar "attacks" I don't know why still is so much attention is given to such announcements. The best thing to do would be not to take that into consideration and don't let to influence on the users and on the market.
And I can partialy agree that in the way that we are going there is no much difference between banksters and miners, unfortunately.
Yes,we must just turn a deaf ear to them.We are giving importance unnecessarily importance to their speeches and shedding more light on them.
Its true that china has been trying to issue its own crypto currency soon.Russia too trying the same.India trying to launch its own.More over,now BRIC countries have decided to launch their currency.If they do so,very soon the USD may loose its value as well as its importance.We could not forget that USD got importance when OPEC countries decided to sell petrol only in USD.
Bankers are not only afraid of bitcoin,but also about the other crypto currencies which are to be issued soon by some countries unitedly.But what makes the difference is that they could only shout at bitcoin and not against those countries openly.