I'm serious about that ... and wait and see what they can pull off, but there's a possibility that when the stock market crashes this fall, that bitcoins breaks free from it and that it will finally go it's own way, as in; up ... while their system is crashing ...
there's no guarantee, because it's still early, it might take a few more years, but the possibility exists and the banks are doing whatever they can to prevent that from happening
point being; I don't think they will be able to keep it down long enough, I think it's about to bounce up again ... because ... they don't really want to sell their own bitcoins either ... hahaha