He’s running interference.

Congrats on the fantastic results!

(I apologize for the flurry of replies - I’m happy to keep going but also don’t want this to be tedious for anyone. I’m not here to sell a product.

I’m here to offer my understanding and also to test my positions. Dialogues like these are great because they tend to do both.)

Looking back at this, I might’ve misread your post, and was mistaken in thinking you needed me to explain a 51% attack.

I think the real sticking point is that you see no personal value proposition in Bitcoin, and therefore you tend to think of 100% of the energy it consumes to be wasteful expense?

If Bitcoin becomes the dominant currency, a lot will have to have gone ‘right’, including a near-total transition to clean & renewable energy production.

But it would also level the financial playing field. Even if it cost 60% of the world’s energy to make the world a fair place, that sounds cheap.

As I think further on this, I see the potential that we grow 1-2 orders of magnitude in energy cost to become the dominant currency, and I’ll happily concede that.

And that actually helps me clarify my feelings on it, so I really REALLY appreciate your pushback!