Its no longer in their hands so please stop waiting on a response and just keep pushing forward. Its already too late spreading faster than they can try to stop. Its like trying to stop the internet or social network media, Its not going to happen.
Happy trading and mining
to the moon!
That's very idealistic, and I hope you are right. But governments controls laws and banks. Bitcoin will have a very long hard struggle without being able to interface with banks.
I don't think it will. I reckon it can work alongside them fine. Governments will obviously regulate it, but it'll be as futile as the war on drugs if they try to kill or suppress it.
The acid test will be in 2014 whether banks in the States and Europe are actually prepared to work long term with properly set-up bitcoin-related companies. I suspect they will be. To date, bitcoin companies have been very "flaky" so its not surprising banks have dumped them. Lack of clear regulation and guidelines has panicked banks as well.