Some posters here, seem to think that you just accept that these fucking attackers have been acting in good faith in order to "improve" bitcoin, which should be obvious, for the most part, that they are not acting in good faith
"There you go again"
- Ronnie Raygun
Light Pollution in the U.S. alone: 120 terawatt-hours/year
Bitcoin Network: 11 terrawatt-hours/year (??)
CERN Hadron Collider: 1.3 terrawatt-hours/year
Interesting figures - thanks.
shit guys we better up our game this is what we're up against

I know not whether to be mirthful or appalled.
Bitcoin only has to try remaining decentralized and trustless and serve its function for social scaling and reaching consensus. One can then build payment/credit/derivative layers on top as per Exeter's pyramid.
Don't say that three times - you'll wake r0ach.