I worry about any economic system that is defended almost entirely with a verse that, at best, belongs on a coffee cup.

This quote can be applied to anything, it's just as meaningless now as it was the 10,000th time someone used it on circa-1998 Slashdot in response to MS saying something bad about Linux (always a cause for comical levels of hand-wringing on 1998 Slashdot).

If I never see this quote used again on a tech forum it will be way too soon. That's not what I'm thinking now, that's what I was thinking 15 years ago. I can't even process a reaction to someone using it now.

Step 4 is not guaranteed. Progress often ends at step 3.

They laughed at Galileo.

They laughed at Einstein.

And they laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Which one is Bitcoin?