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The Bitcoin network is a global energy buyer with properties unlike any other. It will continue to bid for stranded and excess energy that cannot be used for other applications. Wi…

https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/

Your view on currency exposes your extremely elitist bias. Are you aware that a large portion of the population is unable to purchase assets? What do you say to these people? What …

What's the point, you ask... Here is Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, describing "the point" for an hour: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin/videos/bitcoin-…

In many cases this is incorrect. Bitcoin's mining network is the first global energy market that unlocks stranded energy (energy produced too remotely to be profitably inserted int…

Rather than a case, how about a framework to evaluate going forward: the market. Given enough time, I'm pretty sure the market will root out the "real value" of bitcoin and keep as…

Via Tesla, bitcoin is now implicitly held by all investors in the S&P 500, including, very likely, you. You are now a benefactor of bitcoin's growth, whether you're aware of it or …

Nic Carter's rebuttal to a Bloomberg comparison between Bitcoin/Visa, including assessments of total and per/transaction energy usage: "First of all, Bitcoin and Visa are fundament…

Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, someone who spends a lot of time and energy trying to help people in economically repressed circumstances, cl…

My guess is you have no idea of the underlying dynamics because you haven't done your research before deciding for yourself and stating confidently "can be explained by nothing els…

Culture evolves slowly, often only changing dramatically across generations. Multiple generations in USA (which is a dominantly exported culture globally) have adopted the "drugs"-…

No, it doesn't. Money, perhaps more than anything else in human society, exhibits network effects that incline it toward winner-takes-all dynamics. Every money implicitly competes …

I appreciate your perspective. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills these days on HN concerning BTC. This idea (early rejection, re-justification) is a helpful heuristic for understa…

The "market" is always active and always looking to select the best of everything, including money. Bitcoin isn't be-all/end-all magical money - but it is a massive, order-of-magni…

You are clearly more confused, and entrenched in the status quo, than the comment I was originally responding to. I'm not sure why the "air quotes" around the word "freedom", but i…

As a tech enthusiast on a forum heavily populated by people interested in disrupting aspects of the world through technology, you are missing a big, big boat here. And I'm not even…

We cannot expect any actor (human or otherwise) to act against their own best interest. Google/Youtube, an entity with incentives, will act to maximize it's share of your time spen…

Part of me (the emotional part) agrees with you. But without offering a human-nature compatible monetization mechanism to replace ad monetization, I'm sure you'll lose many things …

1. This is a common criticism, but probably shouldn't be. It would be nice if the activity of folding proteins offered the same proof-of-work, security attributes as, for example S…