A doomed financial farce can still be fascinating, and can still be a huge milestone in mankind's history. In fact, I would say a huge percentage of our history is made up of doomed farces. The more spectacular the failure, the bigger the impact. Bitcoin, doomed or not, is starting to become pretty spectacular.

It's all fun and games until someone's economy gets Really Unalterably trashed and then the guns come out.

The Bitcoiners live in some digital utopia where no one ever pulls a real gun because of politics, but the rest of us are going to have to pick up the pieces for their hubris.