"NSA" is not the same as "the banks." Likely the NSA doesn't really give a shit (at all) about the priorities of the banks. Most of them are probably good people who just want to protect the country. Many of them are probably like Edward Snowden -- remember where he was working?
The priority of the NSA is data collection, data mining, and systems penetration. (Not controlling the unit-of-account of our money system.)
There is the random thought that Satoshi is a group in the NSA.
They get a ledger of all transactions in the economy, self selected by the very secretive.
It uses their strengths, cryptography.
It gives more data than fiat does.
It is a daunting piece of work, it boggles the mind to think that a single individual pulled it off.
What is all that computational power really doing ? hmmm ...
1 BTC + 2 BTC = 19,471,315.5946 ghash
