nice to watch a bank write good about bitcoin, the very thing which is going to make banks extinct in future.
Looking at the people around me I find that very difficult to believe in no matter how disruptive the technology is.
big things start so small..
practically speaking why the hell would anyone need a bank if they can literally have a billion dollars in their pockets or in a piece of paper.
Protection and liquidity assurance.
Remember, banks were originally created to keep money safe. Unfortunately, that has become so obfuscated with all the things that exist in the scope of banks now days. But the fact still remains, a bank acts as a assembled place to store value. After all it's easier to protect something if a whole bunch of people are trying to protect it. (Although, by that same token, it's "centralization" makes it easier to attack...)