i didn't say bitcoin was a joke, its a very good idea with very real flaws. i don't buy the viability of lightning network, and i know that the ledger is very slow. bitcoin has a scale problem, and that is no joking matter, especially with the number of billions of dollars invested in it. your comment is a strawman argument which attempts to put words in my mouth that weren't there. bitcoin may be present in the present tense, but that doesn't mean it can't fail, and be gone tomorrow, so to speak. nothing in technology is too big to fail.