This is essentially my view as well. I also have never owned bitcoin. I personally am not really bothered that bitcoin can be used for illegal transactions. I f

This is essentially my view as well. I also have never owned bitcoin. I personally am not really bothered that bitcoin can be used for illegal transactions. I find much of legal industry to be morally wrong anyway. That said I find the speculative nature totally ridiculous and it basically keeps me from ever touching it as currency. Same for the high transaction costs. And the fact so much energy goes into it is also quite irritating. Mining should eventually not make economic sense (which is good), but with the never ending price growth it seems like we'll just keep mining forever.