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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by u320 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:57PM (#10976002)
But banks provide credit which Bitcoin does not. Most of the problems with banks (bank failures etc) comes from the credit side, not the payments side.
Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by DickingAround on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:02PM (#10976937)
At a glance, it might seem that simple. In more depth, people who try to hold money essentially don't have a place they can easily park and access it other than a bank. People get forced into a fractional reserve system. That fractional reserve system in turn needs a lot of extra work and systems behind it to function. Bitcoin is a way for people to keep and move money without being subject to either money printing or fractional reserve. So it is, in part, a replacement for that system.