I still see many people being puzzled by BTC, saying it's a bubble, that it's going to crash, etc...
Taking advantage of the huge price rise, I think some early believers should team and buy an existing bank. Not Barclays, nor JP Morgan of course, but there are small banks out there. Imagine a bank owned by bitcoiners, for bitcoiners. It would become an exchange, and it would be the best exchange in the world with the full ability to make Swift and SEPA transfers without the need to use the service of a third party.
And what shall we call this your bank? Are you saying purchasing banks like micro finance banks? That's the only thing bank I possibly think a bitcoiners can buy at this particular point in time except they have so huge amount of money, beside it's not all of them that will be willing to sell out their BTC to get a bank.
Why even buy a bank (centralized and corrupt environment) when one can set up a crypto exchange perhaps physical exchange in my opinion.