This is an item on BTC from the Australian press on efforts to send the Bitcoin price down

But first, what is jawboning?

  • Foreign exchange traders have long been used to "jawboning" from central bankers - that is, using carefully selected words to suggest that they are unhappy with the level their currency is trading at, usually because they consider it over-valued.

Says the article:

But the world's top central bankers have a new target: bitcoin and its fellow digital currencies.

RBA governor Lowe:

  • bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a "speculative mania"

Federal Reserve Chair Yellen

  • described bitcoin as a "highly speculative asset"
  • "it is not a stable source of value, and it doesn't constitute legal tender"

Bank of Canada governor Poloz

  • ramped up the attack, saying that buying bitcoin was "closer to gambling than investing"

Bank of England governor Carney

  • suggested global regulators were likely to take a closer look at digital currencies
  • a tightening up of the rules around initial coin offerings was necessary

ForexLive reported all these comments as they happened, but the Australian Financial Review providing a collation of the jawboning, link is here, may be gated: Are central bankers about to burst the bitcoin bubble?