Bei der "Council on Foreign Relations" wird Bitcoin als mögliche neue Weltreservewährung als Ersatz für den Dollar erwähnt, wenn auch nicht ganz ernst gemeint:
http://www.cfr.org/global/us-economy-fiscal-policy/p31935(mit Strg-F nach "Bitcoin" suchen)
Aber immerhin reden sie jetzt schon darüber.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you...
QUESTION: David Slade, Allen Overy. Could you comment on the significance of our reserve currency status to these issues, and the risk, if any, of our losing that?
REINHART: So a part of the reason there's no pressure on politicians is there's no -- we happen to enjoy the benefits of being the reserve currency historically. The first basic principle of economics applied here is, you can't beat something with nothing, and there's no other alternative obvious reserve currency right now. The euro, perhaps?
HOLTZ-EAKIN: Bitcoin? Bitcoin.
REINHART: Bitcoin, yes.
(LAUGHTER)
And it's not obvious why the Chinese would want that, since it comes with the associated appreciated currency relative to what it would be otherwise. Historically, to lose the reserve currency status -- you know, we don't have many observations. We have Britain over the interwar period. You have to make a series of repeated mistakes, there has to be a plausible alternative, and there has to be issuance in that plausible alternative, because reserve managers don't hold currency. They hold assets denominated in that currency.
It was Britain's misfortune that New York was there, that there were sovereign issuance with a lot of Latin America in dollars, and Britain made a series of mistakes.
