My personal opinion is that bitcoin is a prototype and testing ground for an eventual global cryptographic currency which may go through a National or economic area phase first eg Eurozone ASEAN / North American crypto's. whether it will succeed and how long it will take is probably dependent on the progress with bitcoin which looks very promising at the moment.

ADD.. I am not suggesting that "they" created bitcoin but that they have seen it , studied it and like the possibility that it fits into their agenda (one global currency) so will now want to see what it can do .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10102168/Bilderberg-Group-No-conspiracy-just-the-most-influential-group-in-the-world.html

http://www.michaeljournal.org/bilder.htm
What are some of the Bilderberger objectives?

Amongst some of their more ambitious plans are the creation of a One World Government with a single globalized marketplace, policed by a world army; a single global currency financially regulated by a world bank; a universal church as an outlet to channel mankind's inherent religious belief in the direction desired by the New World Order.




They made the Euro and the European Union  ..allegedly

http://www.prisonplanet.com/leaked-1955-bilderberg-docs-outline-plan-for-single-european-currency.html