> Next you're gonna tell me anarchists don't like individual leaders, or that socialists care about healthcare.

There's an irony embedded in both positions. Everyone cares about government, anarchists care about overthrowing the existing government in order to replace it with their own version. Similarly, everyone cares about healthcare, socialists care about other people paying for their healthcare.

> The community founded on circumventing existing financial structures are anti-authority?

But that's the thing; they aren't. They just want to be the authority.

Ethereum in particular has some history with that. A long time ago they espoused this principle called "code is law", and then one time the code for something called "The DAO" did something they didn't like, so they overrode the code. To this day the Ethereum consensus rules specify that a certain hardcoded transaction ID should not do what it literally says it does.

The transition from PoW to PoS is another example, espoused the open ideals of Bitcoin mining, right up until the moment they had gathered sufficient power and members, at which time they closed the gates of ascension behind them.

Hopefully we can agree that PoW is bad

I like it, literally revolutionary, to my eyes BTC owes more to PoW than Blockchain. You start seeing it everywhere, related to Taleb's skin in the game concept, or costly signaling in zoology.

How much would you increase the world's temperature by to have bitcoin?

Probably 0 if I had a choice. But is global warming a problem that is exclusive to bitcoin? Or does bitcoin highlight and accelerate an existing problem that is already a problem through other means, like car/plane emissions and AI datacenters.

Whatever solution we come up with, will work against all sources of warming or environmental damage. Although if one of those measures is banning Bitcoin mining, I wouldn't complain about it.