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Bitcoin isn’t meant to interface with existing financial institutions.

• fidelramos 7y ago
  Correct. It's actually in the first line of the Bitcoin whitepaper's abstract: > A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
• ac29 7y ago
  Sure, but effectively 100% of the world's economy takes place via fiat currencies. One could remain anonymous by accumulating a bunch of cash (or gold, or some commodity, etc) and never spending it as well.