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I think if someone made a KayakCar, we would still hear about it on HN not Facebook.

I did not make any judgement, just noting that this mindset is quite peculiar to the software industry.

Might be because of my ignorance of other areas of human activity, though...

> "Because I can" is a good enough reason to do anything that doesn't cause harm to others.

It's hard to tell in advance how any action may impact others. The extreme example: jumping off a bridge doesn't physically harm others. But having to look at, examine, or otherwise interact with your corpse may inflict trauma on others.

Isn't there also an environmental cost for all things blockchain because of power consumption? That doesn't directly impact others but might eventually.

"proof of work" is the computationally expensive thing... a block-chain is simply a data structure with many uses outside of cryptocurrencies.

did you just compare releasing a new OSS project to suicide?

Are you advocating for suicide on a crematory?