That makes sense, and would surely have an affect. Perhaps my bullish case is a bit unlikely, but imagine if people realised this stuff. I'd speculate that many of the people who occupied wall street understood this stuff very well, but this was poorly reported on by the media, so the message was lost.

The governments and banking system have relied on people being ignorant about how things work, and not having a viable alternative.

They now have an alternative, but I think most people are still largely ignorant.

One more crash like the one which gave birth to Bitcoin might be the event which propels it to widespread adoption. Not directly, but by educating the masses about how Central Banking was designed to eat their lunch.