This is generally a false assertion of the value of BTC and exemplifies the mythos generally perpetuated by groups that have actually little or no understanding of what currency actually is.
+ Sending actual cash from A to B is not a complicated process.
+ We usually use 'banks' for this process, generally for very good reason, in particular, regulatory compliance, security and especially concerns over fraud and money laundering.
+ That banks create essentially a layer of bureaucracy is not that great, however, it's mild relative to the propagation of unregulated currency.
+ BTC is neither a currency, nor a store of value - it's just monopoly money. It's not a currency because it can't be used in any economic system as a standard means of payment, and it's not a store of value for obvious reasons of volatility and no underlying inherent value. Literally any other classical store of value i.e. real estate, bonds, cash, commodities - are much better 'stores of value'.
+ Almost all of BTC's 'value' thus far expressed, comes down to either 1) playing speculative, Ponzi-like games where massively wealth individuals effectively control the market (defeating any notion of real distribution), or 2) skipping over regulatory concerns to do what amounts to illicit stuff, or 3) novelty and intellectual curiosity, which is nice, but not worth it.
+ The stated value of BTC which is to day 'hedge against debasement' unfortunately does not work. Currency is an essential thing for an economy, a 'super hard currency' (i.e. literally ever note backed by Gold) implies zero flexibility in the system and is guaranteed to cause serious strains on growth and/or very ugly deflationary spirals. And other problems.
What we want, ideally is 'very smart monetary policy' that enables us to move the levers as necessary for everyone's well-being. During the COVID crisis, we would be in serious trouble without monetary policy levers, the economic calamity would be much worse if we were all using BTC for example.
Obviously - having monetary policy, means a risk of debasement, such as we see in Venezuela, but Venezuela did not crash merely because of bad monetary policy - it was 'bad everything policy'. Venezuela faced economic collapse because every part of it's system was corrupted, including the Central Bank. There's a 100% chance, that even with a 'Gold Backed Currency' - that some entity in power will have had a chance to corrupt that system as well. For one - stealing the Gold.
+ Currency is a 'social contract'. It's a 'contract with the economy' and there is absolutely no getting away from the fact that it's somewhat intangible and fungible. $100USD basically means 'Americans owe you about this much'. That's it.
This notion that you can 'hold $10B in your pocket' is kind of myth - it's only even possible due to the complex mechanization of financial markets and the banking system.
You just can't sit on 'something' that's worth that much because there's far too going on in terms of comparative value - either that $10B represent assets that have to be managed, or, in a more long term store of value (like real-estate) whereupon even then the value will shift over time.
+ Some nice regulations to enable more fluid transfer of money would be nice. An instrument that was broadly backed by other things of value i.e. stocks, bonds, basked of currencies - and that which itself could be used as a 'global currency' would be nice as well. That could happen. But it may not have anything to do with blockchain.
+ Finally - Blockchain and decentralization - there's just no way getting around having to have trust in our institutions of various kinds. If they don't work, we all fall down. There's no magical way to wish that away and put trust in our pockets. Maybe better trust and transparency.
Finally: I should note there's a 'disruptive' value in BTC I think. It's a 'demonstrative' meme that can help use 'see' the relative value of blockchain etc. in various scenarios.