A capitalist supports the market in the abstract, private property rights, not any given company, a company would love to have a state-sanctioned monopoly if it could get it.
The fantastic thing about capitalism is that what a person does to benefit themselves benefits others as well, their greed may be bad for their spirituality (lets say), but great for society.
Because the wages are a result of supply and demand, not the average skill or experience of those in the occupation, but the rareness of those skills and the barrier of entry.
I agree, there are some problems with BTC when there are spikes and high demands. I do find BCH more attractive lately, especially the steady 0-conf and low satoshi fees. LN is coming.
LN will never come. That's what is holding BTC up. The "HOPE". Eventually the BTC community will get tired of waiting. Especially as BCH is growing more use cases as BTC waits.
Debt in and of itself is not evil, but it will not be as easily conjured in a hard money system for two reasons: (1) no more bailouts and (2) relative deflation.
Doesn't matter what type money it is. Once you loan it out, it becomes debt. That money can then be reloaned again, making more debt. Please read the article posted.
A correction, it is not possible to do do fractional reserve lending with Bitcoin as in lending out more Bitcoin directly than you have. You need to give IOUs with Bitcoin as reserve.
Banker's will weld bitcoin just as strongly as fiat. Bitcoin once loaned, becomes debt money. It makes no difference.
Bitcoin becomes the underlying asset which the debt can be settled or forgiven, but the Bitcoin itself is independent on any debt begin created or repaid/forgiven/defaulted.
Not being able to have daddy Federal Reserve print you money when you fail may make banks more responsible when using bitcoin. That might make them not too quick to adopt it.
Also, if they lent out Bitcoin directly, not as a basis for their reserves, it would be impossible for them to do fractional reserve banking. Would require an extremely low deafult rat