Hector Martin

bitcoin may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get greymarket medication, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

bitcoin is useful for strictly one thing, which is making payments (potentially cross-border) circumventing the traditional financial system

it's useful for absolutely nothing else and unfortunately those transactions *directly* fund the extinction of the human race

i mean yes but all of the logic above also applies to, for example, cars

to a degree I hate BTC especially probably due to being technologically minded, intentional waste, and libertarians

... but... those three apply very much to cars...

the ICE produces something other than heat and has gotten more efficient over time