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He's heavily invested in it--so I'm sure he does believe that, but I doubt banks will let that happen.

Banks are known to do some really nasty stuff to make money: deceively deprive the US of government-controlled money and removing the gold standard, pretty much sentencing Greece to never come out of their depression, etc. etc.

They have pretty good contractual power too: they have everyone's money. That's pretty important in most societies.



even if your conspiracies were true, banks are still better, along most any dimension, than any of the players in the crypto universe.


If by conspiracies you mean conspiracies yes, otherwise I don't think those events are disputed by anyone.

I don't think banks are bad. I have all my money at a bank, not a Bitcoin exchange. I'm just saying that ethics are not their forte, and that's just a fact.




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