Hector Martin

I don’t understand. What is “production”? Are you saying you think everyone adopting Bitcoin is wrong, and you are right, because of the low transaction speed? Or because of the energy consumption? Both?

"Production" is the real world, at scale. Nobody is adopting Bitcoin for what is literally the first sentence of the abstract of the paper that introduced it, today. Its design was never capable of achieving what it set out to achieve, at scale.

If the authors of Bitcoin didn't know this would happen, they were idiots. More likely, they did know, but never expected it to actually become as big as it has, today - it was probably intended to be a prototype for something better.

I’d agree that it’s unlikely the authors of Bitcoin realized how popular it would become, but i still think your initial point with the raspberry pi is foolish for many many reasons.

If you’re confused about why the world looks the way it looks, the world isn’t wrong. YOU are wrong. The course of the world, by definition, cannot be wrong.

That is the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard. It can be used to support everything from Hitler to North Korea to terrorism.

Not "moral", but the path of facts and events and adoption. There is no "wrong", only facts that are are wrong. It doesn't matter how right or wrong a system is, or how efficient it is, the way the world proceeds goes in one direction or another. That's it.

I'm going to borrow from @IAmAdamRobinson here. Quote: "You hear all the time from ... investors and financial exports, that this trend or that "doesn't make sense". It "doesn't make sense" that the dollar keeps going lower or it "makes no sense" that stocks keep higher..."