Re: "Be your own Bank with Bitcoin" - A reminder why this is so important!
Bitcoin allows you to be your OWN Bank .....and it allows you to have access to your own money, without any intermediary having the power to block it. Just make sure that you have sole access to your Private keys. 
I agree and believe that responsible people should have a portion of their savings in BTC. Not all of it, because today it has many drawbacks, including the wrench attack, as discussed later, but part in the bank and part in BTC. That way, if you find that the bank has frozen your funds, it has not frozen them all and you can use BTC.