OK I'm reading a bit more, I guess it's more like a modern replacement for SWIFT, the tokens not being an independent currency. Is that about right?

Crashing upwards, perhaps, but I think bitcoin will hold it's own. It has worldwide niche appeal as Internet money for the people that all attempted replacements have failed to replace. 

 government money is gonna be irrelevant when grid down and satellites falling out of the sky, but bitcoin will keep on ticking

bitcoin will only fail when the internet is completely ded, which is almost impossible