Comment by mr_spothawk

> I think Bitcoin functionally bears much more resemblance to a distributed bank than to distributed cash.

This is likely because you don't understand what a bank is, or that you don't understand what bitcoin is, or a combination.

If you're interested in bank-like things that use bitcoin, you could learn more about fedimint.

If you're interested in what bitcoin is, you could just read the white paper[0].

0 - https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper