One of bitcoin's wonderful newly-discovered features is that it will lead gullible anti-human hysterics to scam themselves into poverty by going into green-signalling stupid shitcoin scams.
Your entire modern life, from effortlessly surviving winter to all your electronic devices, is utterly dependent on hydrocarbons & carbon emissions. Until you live a year without them, your opinion about bitcoin consumption is dumb worthless noise.
Modern life's hallmark is energy replacing human labor. It's how washing machines, tractors, cars, & PCs free us from drudgery & poverty. Every technological improvement we discover allows us to replace living human time with dead fuels and that's unequivocally a good thing.
If you'd like to see the world's poor have a better standard of living, with electricity, sanitation & electronics, you need to accept the world will have to consume a lot more energy, not less. You can't virtue-signal your way out of this if you want to be taken seriously.
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The typical libertarian think tanker is a bitter loser with nothing constructive or intelligent to say. If you think bitcoin can work, they will launch into emotional diatribes about how it can't because they have credentials & degrees, while never offering a cogent argument.
Similarly George Selgin spent years snarkily insulting bitcoiners for not understanding money, then when on a stage to debate me, chickened out & said bitcoin has great monetary policy & resorted to arguing dumb bcash scammer talking points about scaling
Imagine spending your life working on monetary reform & then bitcoin comes along & your most notable contribution is not to explain it to the world, but to moan on Twitter that bitcoiners don't respect you or understand economics as well as you.
If you bought $10 of bitcoin a week for the past 7 years, you would have turned $3,660 into $218,940 today.
Imagine how many people's lives could be improved if they had done this.
Now imagine how many were put off doing this because they listened to clueless bitcoin skeptics.
Bitcoin's uptime & price appreciation are unprecedented in payment network & financial asset history.
Bitcoin skeptics have no way of explaining this but still feel confident enough to turn people away from it because it doesn't agree with their fiat university's dumb theories
Bitcoin skeptics are technically & economically illiterate luddites who are turning people away from the world's best monetary technology, because of noises they learned from central bank propaganda mouthpieces at fiat universities.
Bitcoin is the only technology that allows you to convert Janet Mnuchin, Christine Powell, Jay Lagarde, Mario Yellen, and Steve Draghi into noises inconsequential to your life.
Imagine training and working all of your life to earn money, and then having to hang on every cryptic word of some fiat economist you never hired to try to figure out how to keep it.
Millions of people worldwide are securely & happily holding ~$1 Trillion worth of bitcoin.
This is the only thing that matters: market success. If you think btc failed because it hasn't fulfilled a theoretical ideal you project on it, you're the one who failed to understand it.
There is an endless list of things that bitcoin is not. You're not being smart by pointing some of them out. You're being a pig-headed idiot for refusing to understand what things make it successful. It's really not hard if you'd stop trying to be a smartass & think.
"Apple failed because it cannot provide me with artificial girlfriends"
"Amazon failed because it cannot deliver to North Korea"
"Bitcoin failed because it's too volatile"
Same stupid energy.
Build a better Apple, Amazon, or Bitcoin or have fun staying irrelevant.
Fiat Standard con artist wants YOU to stop emitting CO2, which will quite literally destroy your life and make you destitute, while he continues to fly his private jet & profit from green energy scams subsidized by destitute taxpayers & inflation victims.
How does Gates justify his private jets & mansions powered by enormous quantities of hydrocarbons?
He invests in green scams which get massive fiat subsidies & mandates to replace YOUR reliable hydrocarbons with unreliable expensive biofuels, wind & solar, destroying YOUR grid.
Carbonhysterics will throw their usual hissy fits to deny this, but green scams are why blackouts are becoming commonplace in countries which solved the problem of reliable 24 hour electricity decades ago using reliable hydrocarbon & nuclear plants.