[anthony_barker]

More than 50% of the worlds population live in a countries with currency controls(China, India, Angola, Nigeria etc). They have reasons to avoid currency controls.

Another less nice example is the guy who had 50 million in BTC who went to german jail and they couldnt' recover the funds. This the first time in history you can have a "buried treasure" that you can protect just by memorizing 12 words.

Greece was almost in continual default from 1800 until the EURO. (Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth. This Time Is Different).