Furthermore nothing about bitcoin is "necessary", even in some loose consumer-demand sense of the term. - There are other, better cryptocurrencies that don't b

Furthermore nothing about bitcoin is "necessary", even in some loose consumer-demand sense of the term. - There are other, better cryptocurrencies that don't bake the planet. - There are other, better financial infrastructures that process more transactions and provide a better stable store of value. - There are other, better distributed computing networks that do more than calculate sha256 over and over again.