Bitcoin was bad enough. Decentralized, digital money! Networked computers with spare CPU cycles (think, SETI@Home project) cranking out something VALUABLE! A

Bitcoin was bad enough. Decentralized, digital money! Networked computers with spare CPU cycles (think, SETI@Home project) cranking out something VALUABLE! A developer named Laszlo Hanyecz was the first person to use Bitcoin for a commercial transaction, on May 22, 2010, when Bitcoin was a little over a year old, he bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. The day is now known as "Bitcoin Pizza Day." Completely unregulated, other people create other forks of cryptocurrency, and use them to PUMP UP the value of Bitcoin itself. Computers in far corners of the universe generate trillions of "Tether" coins, which are then used to buy BTC. A digital asset, that always goes UP! Numbers go UP! That got everyone's attention. === ==== Now those two pizzas cost Laszlo 380 million dollars. Cryptocurrencies drain more electricity than the entire country of Argentina. And just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, they started selling NON-FUNGIBLE digital assets, like a unique URL pointing to a JPG image online. For 69 Million US Dollars! That got everyone's attention, again.