Originally Posted by k0nr4d

It was - right up until banks started getting involved in bitcoin futures Now it's just a big, unregulated market that's manipulated by banks and bankers. Notice how BTC started going way down when the first btc shorts had to close their positions.
There's nothing stopping from banks from using crypto, and they have much much bigger budgets then you or me. They make too much by printing money and giving loans using money they don't actually have for the powers that be to allow something to replace fiat currency...