The thing is, I can smear $5M across say 5 physical locations in a way I can't with actual money. With actual money, the best I could do is put $1M at each phys

The thing is, I can smear $5M across say 5 physical locations in a way I can't with actual money. With actual money, the best I could do is put $1M at each physical location. With bitcoin, I could put a portion of the key at each physical location, requiring that you break in to all 5 to get any money.