Strawman. I won't answer it.
>>To think there is some dark force out there shilling for big banks to scare us from adopting a technology that supports a few transactions a second and requires more energy than several small nations combined.... pretty naive.
But central banks, bankers, big time capitalists and the federal government would never do anything outside of public interests?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-bitc...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/jpmorgan-...
https://www.coindesk.com/former-fed-chair-janet-yellen-is-no...
https://www.coindesk.com/us-president-donald-trump-says-hes-...
For the record I don't own any cryptocurrency and never will because I don't believe in it's merits like you, but I am not so naive to think that private interests wouldn't collude against a digital asset highly risky to their profitable margins.