Read the following news:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114983/coinbase-ceo-bitcoin-will-replace-dollar-within-15-years
Do you think it will be true? Are you positive towards bitcoin's future status?
The government will never give up its power to print money, so any chance of Bitcoin becoming an "official" currency is zero. However, if people use bitcoin to transact more than the dollar, that is not something the government can control unless they outlaw bitcoin. However, in order for this even to be possible, you will first need to be able to do everything with bitcoin that you can currently do with cash (and I mean, everything), and my personal opinion is that we are probably not capable of getting to that level of adoption within 15 years.
That expression is not correct. The money are not printed by the government of the country but by the central monetary authority of that country which is the bank of first level of that country. Normally this kind of bank is named Central Bank and is different from all other (commercial banks) banks which act as every other business.
Semantics. The central bank in this country, despite it's self-proclaimed "autonomy," is in the practice of acting in the interest of and at the whim of the federal government.
For which country do you speak?
I speak for every normal and democratic countries. Your vision of the world is fatalist. It is not absolutely possible that in all the normal and democratic countries verified your fatalist vision. Can be cases in which the Central Bank have corrupted leaders which follow the interests of various politicians but this cases are very few, cannot be as example and don't change the mission of this institution and its honest work.
United States. I'm not talking about how things are supposed to work. I'm talking about they actually work.
In any of the posts which are quoted is not talked for this country but for the all the countries in general. Anyhow I don't believe that Federal Reserve is corrupted. Do you have some data which verify your conviction?