[Caveman_Coder]

The whole crypto-currency scene is increasingly seeming like a huge Ponzi scheme. I really wonder at what point popular opinion will no longer support wasting electrical power on mining a digital currency.

[QAPereo]

When the music stops, and hope of striking it rich dies...people are greedy and shortsighted in the aggregate.

[AstralStorm]

In aggregate over long time (multiple generations), not so much. Genetics optimized a global equation after all.

The problem is that we might lack enough time for this to work.

[QAPereo]

True, given time and the resources to enjoy that time, we’re not monsters.

The problem is that we might lack enough time for this to work.

Alas... barring that miracle at least, and probably a few more like it.