While the knives have been out for Bitcoin ever since its dizzying ascent starting over an year ago, there is now an increasingly shrill tone. It's as if the haters, mostly from the financial establishment, are now plumbing the bottom of the barrel and coming up with increasingly depraved stuff, having abandoned reason and fair consideration long back. Sample this news item for instance:
Title: Bitcoin Nearly as Bad as ‘Trading Harvested Baby Brains’, Says Berkshire VC Munger
Posted at: BITCOIN OPINION MAY 07, 2018 16:26
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-nearly-as-bad-as-trading-harvested-baby-brains-berkshire-vc-munger/tl,dr: “The computer science behind bitcoin is a great triumph of the human mind,” Munger told Yahoo Finance. “They created a product that’s hard to create more of but not impossible. [But] I see an artificial speculative medium,” he said. It’s “anti-social, stupid and immoral.”
“Suppose you could make a lot of money trading freshly harvested baby brains. Would you do it?” he asked. “To me bitcoin is almost as bad.”
“I regard the whole thing as a combination of dementia and immorality. I think the people pushing it are a disgrace,” he concluded. “There ought to be some things that are beneath you, that you just don’t do, and this is one.”
