Wow, reading the comments about ways to solve this above and I'm speechless... let's follow demands for regulation/self-regulation/FDIC-style insurance to its logical conclusion - it seems to me that everything will eventually come full circle and every financial institution and mechanism that people do not like today which moves them towards Bitcoin will ultimately be recreated by this new wave.

Bitcoin is not a revolution, it is not a movement, it's an iteration, and a significant one.

The same thing for the internet, today vs 1996, all the same huge media companies as before dominate the web with some new ones mixed in that jumped in early.