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A failure of imagination to do something useful with crystalized math is more a commentary on the failure of imagination vs. the utility of math.

If you compare any esoteric financial instrument against the melted rock utility test that you mention, the laity will err on the side of melted rocks.

Actual value is a true Scotsman.

The tulip bulb mania story is an incredibly persistent but inaccurate myth.

How much of our global energy usage is spent on poorly implemented ACPI code, Windows drivers, inefficient GPU drivers, etc...

Even better, how much energy is wasted per page view due to inefficient frontend web frameworks?

Seems to me that code is speech, and restricting what one can and can't do with silicon that one owns is absolutely ridiculous.

Debatable. The Bobby Darrin song is a cover of the Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht song, the Capcom character is a reference to the Bobby Darrin song, and this article is likely punning on all of the above.

>> No idea why.

Mainstream adoption, Visa & Goldman Sachs using it as a settlement layer, actual utility, defi, etc...

He's a child who wants attention, and seeing that Vitalik got some today by trashing Shibua means he's going to try and pump Shibua next.

Right now the central bank wills money into existence and then gives it to other banks who already have lots of money. Change your lens and see the similar topologies.

>Bitcoin works remarkably well for shady activities. Ransomware payments, human trafficking, blackmarket dealing, drug smuggling, money laundering, and other illegal activities are worth mentioning.

Not really. Leaving a permanant transaction history of one's crimes in the hands of multiple 3rd parties potentially for thousands of years doesn't work out too well if anyone is interested in prosecuting said crimes in the future.

Dogecoin is neither deflationary, nor does it have a fixed supply. It's not going to be a thing beyond a lot of poor fools getting rekt when their techno king abandons it for his next meme fetish.