I created a 6 minute youtube video to explain why I don't like bitcoin, but let me sum it up. I see the us dollar as a debt backed currency. Banks create money through loans, which are in turn backed by houses, cars, and people's incomes. Everybody seems to think the us dollar is a faith based, or something, but I don't see it that way. I see it as a fully backed currency, not too much different from being a gold backed currency. Where am I wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jujwQkhnoU8You are wrong about the part that dollar is backed by a government and a country and not banks.
Yes, banks are a big part of the dollar value however government is a bigger part of it. When america gives china or whoever papers that states they will pay their debt it has a value. Would you loand 1 trillion dollars to USA or to Venezuela right now ? I would highly think you would definitely prefer giving money to USA instead of most other countries.
Yes, UK seems like a better place to give your loan, yes France might be close, Germany definitely is a good place to loan as well (not like they would need it) and so forth but USA is high on that list. Which makes dollar valuable, plus all the oil trade is done thru dollar which means people all around the world need dollars for the oil trading, oil people get paid in dollars and buyers pay in dollars so that creates a demand for it as well. Combine all of this and you get yourself a not so bad currency.
Of course, you can still prefer euro or sterling but dollar will stay top 5 currency for a long time to come until USA starts to default on their debts which I doubt will ever happen.