You see, no one actually wants a digital currency. There have been several (nano was my favorite) that functioned especially well as a currency, because it used very little compute power to perform or verify transactions.

But a currency is stable. Which means you don't magically make money by holding or trading it. So it doesn't get attention, and therefore doesn't get widely adopted.

Everyone likes Bitcoin because it's speculative digital gold.

You mean modern Christianity?

Why have a child so they can grow up to fight in the water wars or die of famine during ecological collapse?

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

Removing threats to democracy because that democracy is so flawed that it gave you the power to do so legally, and then using that power to eliminate the ability for it to be used again, is heroic.

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

I'm just trying to pay for housing with my meager allotment of 80 hash browns per week

Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.

Yep, so they're all going to continue to merge until there's 1-3 mega streamers, then they'll all add advertising, and we'll have come full circle.

Then there will be some new service which streams content directly to your brain and we'll begin again and continue until we have advertisements in our dreams.

I'm convinced humans have some kind of natural inherent fetishization of "old knowledge".

If it happened outside of living memory they somehow knew more or had special magical knowledge we just don't understand or can't interpret from our perspective. The older, the more true people can be convinced that it is.

As if there is some kind of "platonic ideal" of thoughts or ideas from which all others are derived from, where the further back something back it is, it MUST be more true

I say it all the time: He isn't actually a person, he has no real human emotions. He's just a sucking black hole of narcissism, and lashes out at his enemies accordingly.

"Please pay this monthly access fee to maintain access to your account."

The secret ingredient is commun~~al~~ism.