The incredible energy for digging out gold just to keep it in locked boxes, same for all precious metals, diamonds.
> no Emperor can replace it, no changes can be done without widespread conses.
When was the last time humans were capable of agreeing and working together for long term? The blockchain thinks it's got rid of the mad emperor problem, where in reality the BTC/BTH, ETC/ETH hard forking an existing blockchain is very similar, and introduced a whole new spectrum of problems humanity tried for centuries to solve, without success: reaching consensus.
When the US constitution was born, I don't know, democracy? BTC/BTH, ETC/ETH, crypto is even more democratic as the other side can go on their separate ways, as oposite to countries.
countries go their separate ways. Sometimes peacefully sometimes with horrible violence.
Do you not see massive issues with that happening with currency? Some dev gets pissed one day and fractures the currency market?
As a tangent, what is that? Didn't find it on google (thought I wanted the wikipedia on caligula).
I think it was a reference to one of the previous comments in the chain.