It is better because:
- It is decentralized, I know this is a often used term but it is important! The EU has proposed to prohibit cash at 1.1.2018, I think this won´t get throught but it show´s their intention. More I have visited Ireland some time ago and I payed with a 100€ bill, the cashier (like 40 year old woman) wnated to make a photo because she has never seen a 100€ bill (there are 5/10/20/50/100/200/500 bills, so 100 way not the biggest). They already pay everything with card´s (definitely no surveilance there
). Furthermore in some countries in the EU it is already prohibited to pay certain amounts with cash, correct me if I am wrong but I think in Italy it is illegal to pay something worth more than 3000€ with cash.
- It is like gold and not just "goldbacked" (ha-ha not even by 1%) like fiat.
- fees for international transfers are low and faster compared to banks, I really hope scaling problem of BTC will be fixed nicely to allow micropayments again.
- Fiat belongs to the bank, they may give it to you if they are not bancrupt, if they are your account is frozen and yea. BTC is decentralized and the bank can´t freeze it.