"But I doubt Bitcoin will be your panacea." I did not imply that Bitcoin is my panacea.
If the paper contracts are honored then silver will benefit the most, the higher the paper to physical the more suppressed a market is. This is the main reason why Bitcoin has risen so high.
BRICS nations are awake to the Ponzi schemes the US is running. There is a very small amount of physical silver available and if the Hunt brothers could corner the market, the BRICS could certainly quite easily.