> My point was that you can generally earn interest from a bank at better than inflation rates
That isn't true today in the US or most of the EU.
I see your point on people trusting their bitcoin wallet to a bank or another service. True, but with bitcoin you don't need your bitcoin wallet service to be in your country, and using an online wallet isn't that much easier than using a desktop client so a lot of people will use it. The power of Government to seize assets will be almost null.
That isn't true today in the US or most of the EU.
I see your point on people trusting their bitcoin wallet to a bank or another service. True, but with bitcoin you don't need your bitcoin wallet service to be in your country, and using an online wallet isn't that much easier than using a desktop client so a lot of people will use it. The power of Government to seize assets will be almost null.