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I am not able to figure out what is the point and role for banks to exist in a cypto society.

Depends which bank role you mean.  Some will offer to safeguard your bitcoins so you don't have to. Some will offer payment automated  payment services from your deposited Bitcoin.  Some will offer loans, mortgages?  Some will offer investments, others wealth planning.  Some will provide loans for business and capitial infrastructure investment.  Some will offer services to simply arrange those with money to provide it to those that need money.

So, pretty much the same as they do now.  I wonder from thread like this how many people really get what banks do.
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What was the role of blacksmiths after the invention of the automobile?

Some financial districts will have historical areas (like Williamsburg) and the bankers can "work" in a display area kinda' like zoo animals.  Smiley
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IF such a dramatic change is ever to happen (which I doubt) then the major role of banks will still be the same as nowadays: give out loans and do investment banking. Most banks would get rid of savings and salary accounts rather sooner than later if they could but there is no money to be made from that. They just keep them because in most countries laws require them to back a certain amount of their investment banking (speculation) with actual savings and real money.

LOL, real money?

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How about standing orders and direct debits? I could make those transfers myself, but then again I might forget. I could have some software on my home computer that makes them automatically according to a schedule, but what if there's a power cut or my internet goes down and I miss a mortgage payment?
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the role of banks in a bitcoin society is to stop the mass adoption of bitcoin.

...and be crushed doing it!!!
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the role of banks in a bitcoin society is to stop the mass adoption of bitcoin.
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Banks could serve vaults for physical storage for people with a lot of BTC, LTC, and other cryptos in cold storage. 
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What was the role of blacksmiths after the invention of the automobile?

well said
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What was the role of blacksmiths after the invention of the automobile?
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If bitcoin gets into every part and parcel of life like fiat money and you are able to get paid,pay your rent,buy, sell, raise loan and do  anything with bitcoin then what is the point and role of BANKS!

With the rise of modern consumer banking [1] most of the public has lost touch with the real purpose of banks.  Banks are supposed to act as creditor agencies and they still do, but we erected a lot of insurance structures to prevent loss to savings accounts.  I assume youre American(just going by your outlooks) - most of these things were created after the Great Depression.  You'll notice today that when you go to a consumer bank, eg. Wells Fargo, they concentrate on meaningless 'customer service', things you neither need nor want, rather than the *bottom line* ie 1) returns 2) access to capital.  Modern banks offer virtually none of those two critical things.

So in the future, I think there will be something of a return to 'wildcat banking', and riskier- but more profitable banking products.  Partially because it's obvious our system is broken and partially because they can't stop people from gaining access to these new instruments.  I wrote about how to create a P2P Savings Account and Credit Card here in this paper I wrote some time ago:  http://www.altchain.org/?q=whitepapers/paper3.html


[1] ie. FDIC and Glass-Steagall Act
legendary
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OP, look at Coinbase and you have your answer.
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Unfortunately they will play a large and similar role to what they do today.  The only difference will be they will issue wallets instead of bank accounts.  The mainstreamers do not want to move away from banks.

The 'mainstreamers' will eventually realise how much they don't need banks if bitcoin ever gets to the point where itself is in fact mainstream, but the whole point of banks is we don't need them.
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...the major role of banks will still be the same as nowadays: give out loans and do investment banking.

I would half agree with what Chrithu wrote above: banks will still give out loans but that is not their primary role nowadays.

The primary role of banks in a 100% bitcoin economy would be to assess the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers, lend depositor funds to them at rate of interest commensurate with risk, and profit from the difference between the interest rate charged to borrowers and the interest rate paid to depositors.  
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Unfortunately they will play a large and similar role to what they do today.  The only difference will be they will issue wallets instead of bank accounts.  The mainstreamers do not want to move away from banks.

you mean banks will have your bicoin wallets...what for?

why cant people transact directly to your wallet
People do not want that.  You can access your wallet through their website, an ATM or bank branch.  It will be kept simple for the masses.
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Unfortunately they will play a large and similar role to what they do today.  The only difference will be they will issue wallets instead of bank accounts.  The mainstreamers do not want to move away from banks.

you mean banks will have your bicoin wallets...what for?

why cant people transact directly to your wallet
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Unfortunately they will play a large and similar role to what they do today.  The only difference will be they will issue wallets instead of bank accounts.  The mainstreamers do not want to move away from banks.
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So finally  bitcoin is one which will get rid of banks....

that will be the logical outcome...

you cannot get rid of the bank first is the remittance second is what about those people who is not using bitcoins and third i think the goverment will not allowed us from getting rid of the bank because they need it to steal from us Roll Eyes

a person goes to  work in other country and sends money as bitcoins directly to his family members, so  bitcoin  plays a role in remittance market

not all the people who work abroad knows what bitcoin is and how it works so definitely they will sticking up into a fiat and send them to their family from bank to bank basis
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So finally  bitcoin is one which will get rid of banks....

that will be the logical outcome...

you cannot get rid of the bank first is the remittance second is what about those people who is not using bitcoins and third i think the goverment will not allowed us from getting rid of the bank because they need it to steal from us Roll Eyes

a person goes to  work in other country and sends money as bitcoins directly to his family members, so  bitcoin  plays a role in remittance market
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So finally  bitcoin is one which will get rid of banks....

that will be the logical outcome...

you cannot get rid of the bank first is the remittance second is what about those people who is not using bitcoins and third i think the goverment will not allowed us from getting rid of the bank because they need it to steal from us Roll Eyes

If bitcoin becomes as big as OP described "bitcoin gets into every part and parcel of life like fiat money and you are able to get paid,pay your rent,buy, sell, raise loan and do  anything with bitcoin", then governments (except North Korea) can't stop it Smiley
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So finally  bitcoin is one which will get rid of banks....

that will be the logical outcome...

you cannot get rid of the bank first is the remittance second is what about those people who is not using bitcoins and third i think the goverment will not allowed us from getting rid of the bank because they need it to steal from us Roll Eyes
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