Looks like Bitcoin is working: The people whose empires depend on Bitcoin not going up, are scared and have to show up national television to trash it.
I agree that when the world's powerful are talking down about Bitcoin it's a good thing for us.
But you're misappropriating Warren Buffet's, Charlie Munger's, and Bill Gates' relationship to bitcoin. Bitcoin's success could help these guys. There is certainly no business venture of these three that can be threatened by Bitcoin. Buffet and Munger aren't bank owners, they're investment heroes. They serve as the ultimate endorsement of any investment - when they start talking positively about Bitcoin, we'll have entered the final stage of adoption. And Gates', obviously, benefits from technological advancement.
Buffet and Munger are talking poorly about Bitcoin because they want to keep "regular investors" away from the lure of a very risky investment. They don't want people to lose all their money because they're too uneducated to realize what they're doing. That's all. Bitcoin is very risky...it's also the king of the next technological revolution.
Remember: Bitcoin IS working. 21 million coins, unhackable, uncensorable, unconfiscable. What anyone says on any TV or website is irrelevant, only these fundamentals matter.
Yeah man, Bitcoin IS working. The financial news sites were joking about bitcoin a year ago, now they provide daily or weekly updates on it's price moves. That's an incredible shift in respect.
Bitcoin is not just "a technology". You can't isolate Bitcoin as "a technology" without having in mind what it really means and what it does to the status quo. When Bitcoin starts threatening the US as the global unit of value, anyone holding assets that are correlated to the US being the global unit of value will feel threatened, and all of these 3's empires rely on that being the case.
When your entire portfolio is very dependent on the US being the big gangster of the world, you aren't going to like the technology that allows a new predator in town, and that's Bitcoin. At that point you either diversify your portfolio (by owning Bitcoin) or continue stubborn on it being a fraud, a scam, or whatever else. So what I predict is further FUDding and attacks from the fiat empires, since the fundamentals aren't going to change, which is what makes it valuable.