You didn't read the article, did you?

This kind of post is against HN rules.

I have ahem lost more than enough time on articles about Bitcoin, and its tiresome wide-eyed fanatics. The comments are bad enough.

So, you didn't read the article. Please contribute to discussion specific to the article.

"Mining wastes electricity" is a trite talking point we will see in every discussion.

Hfsp

I assume comments like that are from people who are conflicted by the fact that if their head weren't so far up their ass they would have entertained the notion enough to at least acquire a few bitcoin, but because it's now too late it's better to celebrate just how far up their ass their head is.

You are basically restating this crappy argument:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316392

See the replies. There is nothing more to add to this deeply dull line of thinking.

And yet what I responded to was a restatement of the same "deeply dull line of thinking" as you put it that triggered the responses you say I'm restating. I'm not sure what your point is, other than to say people on the internet tend to restate things.

Yeah I wish the bitcoiners would just bitcoin off and bitcoin happily together, leaving the rest of us in peace. But pyramid schemes depend on continually hyping the product, so they can't.

You know you don't _have_ to read about bitcoin, right?

I've worked with a bitcoin bore.

An analogy for you: like working with an Evangelical Christian who always assumes that your annoyance at their pestering _can only be jealousy_ that Jebus won't let you into heaven.

I mean I get it but your annoyance in this case appears to be directed at evangelicals on the internet you are free to ignore, as opposed to coworkers the presence of whom you have little choice. Maybe you are less free to complain about coworkers and so instead complain here? Either way, your complaining is no less annoying than the thing you're complaining about.