@countduckula: Brewer's yeast has a similar take on success. Given a limitless amount of sugar, It eats it and multiplies as fast as it can...
...while shitting ethanol, which inevitably kills it, giving us delicious booze.
I hope the Bitcoin community is smarter than yeast.
As a brewer I will confirm. Also Booze as grnbrg said.
I would have hoped in the self governing world that is BTC it would have remained altruistic enough to stop this sort of thing happening but I can see the allure to "more coins same effort" which appears to the case.
In brewers terms "cut malts add sugars same ABV = Profit."