When banks custody bitcoin and issue notes (receipts, checks, credit, etc.) beyond their reserves, is there a reason to worry things may end similarly to the way it did in the days if the gold standard?

Or does a public ledger keep this in check?

Or does this worry only apply to assets backed by US dollars?

When people discover that the banks issued too much paper, will a bank run for bitcoin be possible without disrupting the rest of the financial system?

Or will a bank run be possible at all?

And does this ultimately raise ir lower the price for thos who hold their assets outside the system?

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Banks are already doing that like Coinbase, which is technically a bank but a Bitcoin bank. Bitcoin will end up like gold so it's our duty to teach new people how to self custody, although it's a bit difficult right now to self custody for beginners.

The only thing is that if there is a Bitcoin bank run, there will always been people who self custody so they will be ok which will cause people to learn about self custody. So technically Bitcoin can never die, only paper Bitcoin can die.

There were always people holding gold in self-custody too.

Yes and gold has not died, but paper gold has. And now we have paper paper ?

You need to end Central Banking and Government bailouts first before banks can function as intended again.

Banks will always want to engage in fractional reserves. The ability to self custody and make runs on Bitcoin Banks, with no way to bailout the institutions with a money printer will form sufficient check on the banking system.