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How much of the world have you described?

Bitcoin is better in those unstable currency countries. The market will decide (has decided in some cases). So maybe inexorably bitcoin will be the reserve currency for a large portion of the planet. And at some point there will be a tipping point where it's going to be attractive enough to all other central banks.

It turns an everyday person worldwide into equals with central banks. That's pretty radical.

Banks are the government's instrument of total surveillance and enforcement in the financial sector.

You weren't here in 2008?

I was (if 'here' is the US), and I didn't lose money in my bank accounts?

It was a very close call, all because the banks were so reckless. Are you sure next time they will have enough money to bail them out again?

Of course, "too big to fail" - some of them almost certainly should have, though I would have expected the FDIC to work as intended then (instead of using public funds to prop up the banks themselves, it could have covered our deposits).