It is not impossible to eliminate middlemen in transactions, though it would be difficult, or rather still ages from now, when an era that everything is almost digitalized. And yes, it does make more people unemployed, since traditional banking systems are requiring more manpower than running the blockchain alone.
And thus, without that manpower, transaction fees are cut significantly lower, which is one of the advantages of cryptocurrencies over banks.
The role of banks as collectors and distributors of public funds may be replaced by the blockchain system, but banks have supporting services as part of services that not all can be replaced by blockchain. Banking institutions are synonymous with saving and credit applications. Credit provided by banks is a magnet that can hardly be refused by everyone both for consumption and for business. In addition, banks are also considered as the safest institutions to save money because they provide guarantees of repayment in the event of a malfunction in the bank system or human error from bank officers.
To carry out the function of raising funds the bank has several sources which are broadly divided into three sources namely;
- funds sourced from the bank itself in the form of a capital deposit at the time of establishment.
- funds originating from the wider community that are collected through banking businesses such as the business of demand deposits, deposits, and savings.
- Funds sourced from Financial Institutions obtained from loan funds in the form of Liquidity Credit and Call Money (funds that can be withdrawn at any time by the borrowing bank) and meet the requirements
We can make the role of banks minimal or disappear if we eliminate our dependence on banks. By starting, do not save our money in the bank and do not apply for credit to banks that work with the interest system.