Oh gawd.   

If one of Hal's main points was to attempt to characterize aspects of bitcoin's asymmetric bet like Marcus mentioned, then why get so fucking caught up on the details of how Hal might have been wrong about some details or how people might worship him, when none of that hardly matters... and the points that Hal had been making were more than valid as overall points and even proven largely correct through history.. so who gives any shits or wants to be persistent about quasi-irrelevant details.. in regards to our buddy pal, aka Hal - the - man.  Go HAL!!!!!!

In udder words, bitcoin still remains an asymmetric bet at this very point as I type this post and perhaps even a better bet today than it was in 2009 - even though in 2009 the potential for gain in terms of starting with almost no price was greater, so devolving into seemingly nonsense jealousy regarding how Hal might be worshipped too much by the masses (which is also hardly relevant to anything - except to perhaps want to drag down bitcoin's history) does not take away from the point that Hal asserted that BTC was an asymmetric bet, and so far bitcoin has shown itself to continue to be an asymmetric bet, and whether we are further down the path than Hal expected in terms of BTC price appreciation or if it is going to take longer to get to $10 million or whatever other high-side value (or inflation-adjusted or all the world's value - who cares) might not matter so much because the point stands that bitcoin was a very promissing asymmetric bet in 2009 when Hal was contemplating ideas around it and bitcoin remains a great asymmetric bet in the present while at the same time, even asymmetric bets are not guaranteed to come true even if someone might point out some specific guidelines in terms of where the thing (referring to BTC price here) may well go. 

If you have not done so already Spaceman_Spiff, you might want to pick up a wee bit of bitcoin,  in case BTC might catch on... and by the way, you might not need to buy very much to get rich as fuck.. that's the nature of an asymmetric bet.. that has been playing out for more than 12.5 years and likely to continue to play out for quite some time into the future... so what is the point of denigrating where bitcoin might be going or what Hal said about it 5 years before he died..and then even with Bitcoin being a asymmetric bet, there have been a whole hell of a lot of people wanting to hoard BTC, so if you can get it with lower prices, you should probably consider ur lil selfie as lucky rather than wanting to denigrate bitcoin's upside potential as if it were not important in terms of capturing the wealth of the whole world or whatever other hyperboles might be made from time to time in order to communicate the idea that bitcoin is likely one of the best investments that anyone can make in these here times and seems to be damned well a part of a BIG ASS wealth transfer that is going on even if diptwats like ur lil selfie seem to want to poo-poo such idea and quibble regarding largely meaningless details.