I'm not asking for a pitch deck or a prospectus. I'm asking for a little bit of humility and learning from history. Like, credit where credit is due, the original Bitcoin paper posed a real problem (real in the sense that solving it could actually be net beneficial for society as a whole) and proposed a novel, clever solution to it. That's great! And from the perspective of when the paper was written, it was hard to see the ways in which Bitcoin would fail to actually solve the proposed problem. But now, not only can we see how Bitcoin failed to deliver on its initial promise, we can see how someone who is clever enough to come up with Bitcoin could fail to grasp the implications of it.

Like, from where I sit, Chia looks like it's trying to solve the unintended consequences of Bitcoin, which is a tacit admission from the Chia people that Bitcoin has those problems. It also looks like Chia has an easily foreseeable set of unintended consequences as well: doing to SSDs what Bitcoin has done to GPUs. It doesn't seem to me like the Chia people are worried about that, and I don't know why.