It's easy for us in stable nations to forget that there are many countries that storing your wealth in a bank poses a real risk of corruption, fraud or theft ev

It's easy for us in stable nations to forget that there are many countries that storing your wealth in a bank poses a real risk of corruption, fraud or theft even by governments themselves. Bearer instruments like gold and Bitcoin are important because of the fact that when stored properly they cannot be seized from you by a 'trusted' third party such as a bank and it's exactly because they can't be reversed. It's good that we have both options.