Shower thought. Would this start "killing" the banks?

[Wind_FURY]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

[davis196]

This won`t kill the banks,because they will get financial support from the central banks.By "financial support" i mean loans with little or no interest.Actually "killing" the banks is not a good idea,because many people have savings in those banks.The only way to kill a bank is to create financial panic and find a way to force the people ,who have deposits to withdraw their money.
Getting loans and not paying your debts will create more problems for you.The banks will chase you ,untill you pay your debts.

[Pursuer]

LOL, "According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. households collectively hold over a trillion dollars in credit card debt." https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/
so I don't think it will hurt them at all, there is already enough debt and if they were supposed to be hurt they would have!

[LuanX3]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

Well, I don't think people that got loans do not have other properties aside from the bitcoins they bought. But that would cause it to be another bubble like the housing bubble that happened back then. That bubble burst because in reality no one was really living in those homes but just being used as a speculative investment, much like bitcoins would be if people will max out loans just to buy bitcoins. I don't think it would happen again as banks and other credit services would have employed some sort of safeguards already.

[teilwalL05]

In my opinion with your statement if whatsoever every persons bank account would deliberately loan or use their credit card in buying bitcoin I really think this can not have any problem at all with the bank if people would get loans to them, And they have set minimum reserve requirements, But if all people would get their deposit on the banks and transfer it to bitcoin, Maybe something might happen to the bank, But yes something like this would likely to happen.

[cryptocrusher]

It would harm banks but likely wouldn't kill them unless it was the whole world that did it. I think that they would have some sort of a fail safe in place that would stop such a thing from happening, probably a limit on the amount of credit they can give out within a certain period?

[jseverson]

In case of loans, banks require collateral so they'll be fine in that case.

In case of credit card debt, well that depends. There is no collateral, sure, but there is a limit in place, and it's pretty small for most people. It would be crippling if everyone in the world maxed out theirs and not pay for it for sure though.

As for the second case, banks seem to be onto you because a few have already started banning cryptocurrency purchases through credit cards lol.

[alyssa85]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

That's fraud - and all that will happen is you end up in jail.

It won't hurt the banks, it will hurt you.

[AVAMONEY]

This won`t kill the banks,because they will get financial support from the central banks.By "financial support" i mean loans with little or no interest.Actually "killing" the banks is not a good idea,because many people have savings in those banks.The only way to kill a bank is to create financial panic and find a way to force the people ,who have deposits to withdraw their money.
Getting loans and not paying your debts will create more problems for you.The banks will chase you ,untill you pay your debts.

Yes, good idea to make bank crisis are making financial panic, such as database bank was being hacked and money stolen hahaha, this could be effect most on their customer will withdraw their money at same time, it's panic situation, same as we called here panic selling
I will not recommended taking loan from bank, even it is just Credit-Card, because they are running it under the regulation of law so they can take you into legal proceedings.

[jtipt]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

Lol if you put it like that and let's assume "everyone" does this and there won't be any legal consequences of not paying back. Then yes, it will kill banks. But while we are on this topic, what's stopping banks from printing more money jk..

[Idrisu]

Bitcoin has succeed without the help of bank and governments and I think it might not need to create problems for bank before bringing bitcoin to lim light and making it be acceptable all over the world. We know that banks need to be weaking before we can see less pressures on cryptocurrencies.

[Cobalt9317]

My memory doesn't serve me right I do knew that a financial bank in America founded the WWI or WWII can't remember it.
The owner of the bank have a name of roosvelt or something, so I deem bank is unkillable in terms of financial support it has some back up somewhere to where every conspiracy centering in one point.

[STT]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

The banks would ensure that bitcoin is shut down as a destructive enterprise I think is more likely.   Even now I would advise you not to take leverage when entering bitcoin because the volatility is already very extreme and it would increase the chances that you will sell before is best.      I just say that in reference to the drop out of 2014, 15 going forward.   That was the time to buy but plenty of people sold and never came back which we see was a mistake.   Play for the long term and bankruptcy will take your BTC also btw

[cellard]

The only thing that would end is your freedom. If you get a loan and don't pay, they will come after you. If they can't find your bitcoins, they will find your properties and then get some lube because you are about to get raped.

The only way to kill the banks is if people willingly stop using them and store all of their wealth on bitcoin and transact on there, which I don't see happening anytime soon. The good news is, we don't need that to go to the moon. A small % of diversification in big portfolios can bring BTC to 6 figures rather easy.

[richardsNY]

It won't kill banks at all. Main point of importance is that banks do not actually hand you over any money. They just change a few database points, and that's it. At worst, the central bank can just keep printing into oblivion to keep banks up and running. I like to see banks lose the battle against crypto, but I'm not a criminal, and I don't want to make the tax payer end up paying the bill, because that's very likely going to happen. At some point there will be a time where we can just pay everywhere with Bitcoin, and get our salary paid out in Bitcoin. It's just a matter of time, so have patience. We like freedom, but aren't criminals, keep that in mind.

[TravelMug]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

Banks has a lot of money reserves even if everyone does make a loan and didn't pay, it will not do any significant dent on their financials and they would like die as you have pictured.

But scary thought isn't it? As much as we want to end this domination, it won't happen in the future not even in 100 years or so. They have already a lot of reserves for themselves that they can survive the worst attack on them.

[Shikaina]

This won`t kill the banks,because they will get financial support from the central banks.By "financial support" i mean loans with little or no interest.Actually "killing" the banks is not a good idea,because many people have savings in those banks.The only way to kill a bank is to create financial panic and find a way to force the people ,who have deposits to withdraw their money.
Getting loans and not paying your debts will create more problems for you.The banks will chase you ,untill you pay your debts.

Exactly. Banks are suckers. The central bank will just print money and local banks get support from them. Aside from people’s savings they also possess properties. Those who are not able to pay their debts have their properties being taken by the banks. Could be a parcel of land, house, cars etc.

[aso118]

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

You do not need people to take a loan and default to kill banks. All you need is people to take out their own money (which they have deposited with the bank) and buy Bitcoin (or any other asset). Banks will collapse. That is the beauty of the fractional reserve system of lending.

[MakeMoneyBtc]

First of all, you can be 100% sure than none all of us would take a lon from bank and just dont pay it back because banks have their strategies and you will be fuc*ed up all your remaining life if you dont pay your loan back. Probably if all bitcoin users would do such a thing it eill harm banks but surely not kill them because bitcoin users are spread all around the world and every bank would have a certain number of loans wich is not going to make them close their bank.

I guess banks have limited amounts of money that they can loan to people and remember that not everyone can get a lon because banks are not that stupid. If thousands of millions of people would take loans and dont pay them back I cant imagine what would happen. I guess it would all be a disaster wich is not going to end very well.

[batang_bitcoin]

It is not enough to kill the banks. They are rich with properties and they have reserved fund that is stored on their vaults. Banking industry is the wisest industry when it comes on making money and I'm sure that they won't allow this to happen and we can't out think them by having this type of mindset. But it's also a reality that there are people who loans from them and not paying. I was once worked in a tied up company with bank and they are also recovering some of the unpaid loans through acquiring assets and providing tighter requirements on who will they grant.