[rkuykendall-com]

A doomed financial farce can still be fascinating, and can still be a huge milestone in mankind's history. In fact, I would say a huge percentage of our history is made up of doomed farces. The more spectacular the failure, the bigger the impact. Bitcoin, doomed or not, is starting to become pretty spectacular.

[drivingmenuts]

It's all fun and games until someone's economy gets Really Unalterably trashed and then the guns come out.

The Bitcoiners live in some digital utopia where no one ever pulls a real gun because of politics, but the rest of us are going to have to pick up the pieces for their hubris.