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No banks, thank you. They are not needed anyways!!!

Why not? Currently, banks are a necessity. But if all the transaction power is given to the people, banks will became what they should have been in the first place: A service. Mainly for people who are willing to pay a small fraction of money to have their other money kept in safety. Let's face it, being your own bank is risky

why is being your own bank risky? Can you not take care of your own finances? Sorry I dont understand you point.

Many computers get infected with malware. Most computers don't have cash that you can make a copy of either though. It doesn't take much thought or effort to find examples of decidedly not dumb people losing Bitcoin. Bitcoin will redefine "bank," not eliminate them.

Absolutely. Right now it's killing me that if I ever mess up my security I'll lose a lot of money. You can always follow procedures and think you're doing the right things, but there are always accidents possible which are very hard to foresee. That's why I'll always keep a combination of my own wallets and some insured wallets in various banks, once these are available (perhaps even generating interest).

you can safe your wallet on a usb drive or paper wallet or brainwallet Huh

Sure, but what if your house burns down? Or what if I generate a brainwallet from an unsecure computer? There are lots of Black Swans around the corner.

What if the government just confiscates your gold as it happende before in the US?

What if your government decides to freeze your funds because it was hanging its gluteus maximus a tiny but too far out the window?