Bitcoin veteran declares war after ECB releases paper criticizing BTC.

Tuur Demeester, a Bitcoin veteran, claims that a recent European Central Bank (ECB) paper on Bitcoin represents a "declaration of war" against the leading cryptocurrency.

In new research, the ECB claims that BTC has strayed away from the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto, its pseudonymous creator, and now exists to extract value from latecomers and non-holders.

Authors of the ECB paper urge the general public to call on politicians to pass laws that force BTC to “disappear.”

Demeester, the editor-in-chief of the Bitcoin analysis firm Adamant Research, believes governmental authorities will use the ECB’s “luddite argument” to enact taxes or bans on BTC.

“In all the years I’ve been monitoring the Bitcoin space, this is by far the most aggressive paper to come from authorities.

The gloves are off. It’s clear that these central bank economists now see Bitcoin as an existential threat, to be attacked by any means possible.

Many of us have warned that this was coming: Bitcoin as a major political fault line both in national and international elections. Well, here it is. It means that us HODLers must take action to ensure that governments respect our basic right…