> if the number of people using Bitcoin continues to grow, our institutions and infrastructure will have to evolve to address the problems mentioned by the auth

> if the number of people using Bitcoin continues to grow, our institutions and infrastructure will have to evolve to address the problems mentioned by the author So basically Bitcoin will be successful if Bitcoin will be successful. >society will need [...] substantially better authentication mechanisms, [...] more secure financial institutions, and more technologically-savvy regulatory and policing institutions. This is describing how to improve online banking. Isn't Bitcoin supposed to present an alternative to that?