[nikolay]

It always bothered me how computer engineers who try to conserve energy and optimize all the time were excited by the wasteful Bitcoin implementation only because they see a potential in it to increase their wealth. It's like glorifying random sort because we haven't invented the bubble sort yet!

[feedjoelpie]

If you're talking history, I don't think that's quite fair. The whole hash-based algorithm was just the most mathematically simplistic way to make the idea work. It still is.

If you're talking present-day, yeah, mostly Bitcoin hoarders don't want to see any change that might make their currency start functioning like a currency instead of fake gold.