Here's the thing: the public doesn't need Bitcoin. The public needs quite a few of the services and functions that the existing financial system provides. Bitco

Here's the thing: the public doesn't need Bitcoin. The public needs quite a few of the services and functions that the existing financial system provides. Bitcoin on its own is unable to provide many / most of these. The last handful of True Believers can shuffle Bitcoin among themselves indefinitely, this is true. But does that have any more significance to the world than a multiplayer game someone creates for only them and their friends to play, handing game items back and forth among themselves?