If I have to see one more Talking Head wheeled onto MSM "news" programs, saying that bitcoin "is not backed by anything" and it "uses more energy than a small country"....

It boggles the mind that so few people will bother to do even the smallest investigations sufficient to realise the fallacy of these statements. Especially so if you know you're going to be asked for your 'informed' opinion to be spewed across national TV.

It really does go to prove that Henry Ford was right about their levels of ignorance:
"It is perhaps well enough that the people of the nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

and Andrew Jackson:
"In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people.....are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions."

And from Mark Twain, which currently sums up my reasoning for not engaging with such people anymore:
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."