The comments section on many established Crypto pod casts the flooded with long screeds against BTC by those doing there social duty to save us all from what they see as a ponzi. In the words of Shakespeare

Human institution can cough up blood for quite a while before their demise. It will take a big shock to the collective system before people awake to realize they need something a new system of money.

Krugman is not entirely wrong. the other day he said that if Bitcoin succeeds we would go back to a monetary system of 300 years ago.......EXACTLY!

Andy, at 47 you are still a young guy. I am 58 and was in 4 years ago. I dont think a cartel per se is controlling BTC. However I do believe the big guys are using their weight to suppress prices so that

A little known fact. In the years leading up to the American revolution, the colonies were the primary consumers for the Fleet Street printers in London In 1776 colonists were considered the best read

This question falls into the "could fish discover water" class of questions. Another words, being human, this is such an internal part of our existence we may be ill-equipped to answer it. As

Mathematical backed crypto or the arbitrary whims of the aristocracy. Not much of a choice in my mind.

Good overview of the mining vs power consumption argument . With Containerized equipment on the way I suspect we will see more use of excess energy flowing into Crypto mining. Idled coal plants, poorly

This take a particularly unique type of stupid. Deaths are the most coarse measurement of what epidemic diseases do to human populations. The decreasing death trends were due to medicine getting better