Kurt Eichenwald in Vanity Fair, April 9, 2013: "Perhaps the best document to understand the Bitcoin market is a report published in October by the European Central Bank. In it, the institution spends a good deal of time critiquing what it calls “the bitcoin scheme.” (Warning No. 3: When a major financial player refers to an investment as being part of a “scheme,” steer clear.)
Coindesk 22.11.2013: "Yi Gang, the deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, this week mentioned bitcoin in comments... "The fact he made any comment at all is significant," said Bobby Lee, CEO and co-founder of the world's largest bitcoin exchange by volume, BTC China. He added: "It means, in the near term anyway, China's central bank won't give bitcoin any official legal status. But the key point here is 'near-term'. Given his position, of course his statements need to be conservative. Anything else would be too much of an official statement."