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People don't like to publish much while they're still smarting from losing large amounts of "money". It helps that Bitcoin wasn't just an asset, it was an ideology: that the deflationary shrinking-resource represented by coin mining was necessarily valuable. People don't like questioning ideologies like that: it threatens their entire sense of how the world can be a good place at all, it feels from the inside like a nihilistic pit of darkness.



I'm more of a buttcoiner myself, but all this past tense "bitcoin is done" reeks of "foregone conclusions" and I don't think that's wise.

I will say that it's possibly less of a crime that the self interested unbridled optimism of its advocates.


remember! all these downvotes are actually good for bitcoin!




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