what did you expect?
I kind of expected this, because I know that even skeptics will come to appreciate how brilliant Bitcoin is when they bother to learn in detail about it.
personally I'm starting to doubt bitcoin abit because it requires someone to pay for Energy forever and in increasing amounts to keep it alive
Is there another currency that doesn't?
USD doesnt need a permanent inflow of ever increasing Energy to keep it's perceived value alive
I don't know about that, those presses are running non-stop, that shit has to be hauled around every day. Banks are converting it to 1s and 0s, then sending that back and forth until they magically have MORE 1s and 0s. Credit card companies are pumping out plastic, mailing them all over, paper transaction records are printed for EVERYONE, every month, and then *those* have to be hauled over the place. The government has to constantly find something to buy to inject money back into the system, be that toxic assets, or funding the "war on terror" which is also a huge waste of resources, etc. etc.
Meanwhile, BTC are created, transferred and maintained all under the same network. As technology advances, the network uses VASTLY less power (relative to work) CPU>GPU>ASIC, and in the future, services emerge which enable users to send bitcoins to each other without a network transaction ever taking place (think of an exchange or payment processor simply changing the balance of two user's accounts, no coins need to move until someone requests payouts).
most USD is created on a bank and is nothing more than a number on a database
now I hope I don't have to explain to you that costs near-zero energy to keepup
BTW Asics are actually going to make the Energy sink of Bitcoin higher, not lower
but keep saying yourself otherwise
also, a payment processor like PayPal for bitcoin defeats the core purpose of bitcoin and will kill it completely
