It should be pointed out that US operated as a democratic republic for over a century on the gold standard - which bitcoins shares a lot of properties with, except that bitcoin can be transmitted at distance easily, whereas gold cannot.
Bitcoin on the other hand has a set supply and supply schedule, making it deflationary and inadequate as a currency.
"The various currencies, which were all maintained on a stable basis in relation to gold and to one another, facilitated the easy flow of capital and of trade to an extent the full value of which we only realize now, when we are deprived of its advantages. Over this great area there was an almost absolute security of property and of person."
Keynes was one of the great advocates for dropping the gold standard, calling it a barbarous relic - as his biographer Skidelsky says, "useful as a constitutional monarch but disastrous as a despot".
The various central bankers clinging to gold - against all evidence - caused the great depression's deflationary spiral.
I really don't care - but the point still stands that Bitcoin is still almost a century behind other currencies because it is deflationary.