If you search thru HN for the various submissions over the course of this case (over a decade old at this point!) you can see the wildly changing values of the bitcoin in the headlines.
Once it was 6M, then 181M, then 80M, now it's 598M! Haha
Any technology which gives you the ultimate power, to do whatever you want...also gives you the power to accidentally blow off your own foot.
Techno-utopians seldom mention that.
They just expect it to be someone else's foot. When code is law, they hope to be the judge and jury.