[randomhodler84]

No way, it is these things.

Do the maintainers of SMTP do so as a public good, eg: provide us with decentralized email systems? Encryption protocols? ECMAscript?

Internet protocols are maintained as a public good. The Bitcoin developers are certainly not trying to extract profits, they are trying to deliver the world an open source monetary system.

[kibibu]

Perhaps that's the core developers' goal.

What they are trying to deliver and what they are actually delivering are two wildly different things. They've built a platform that destroys the environment faster than the entire banking sector, enables scams and ponzi schemes at unprecedented scale and anonymity, meanwhile delivering a whopping transaction throughput of around 20/s - enough to support a few moderately busy supermarkets in a single small city.

[randomhodler84]

With all due respect none of those things are true. I understand that you passionately believe them, but they are not true. You should try to understand how this works and why people would be interested.

[kibibu]

It's very easy for you to check the TPS and power consumption of Bitcoin. If anything I've overestimated the transaction rate.

[drcongo]

> What they are trying to deliver and what they are actually delivering are two wildly different things

That's precisely the point of the article isn't it?