No, really: there are Bitcoin advocates who seriously look forward to economic collapse as an opportunity for Bitcoin – continued availability of high powered
computing machinery, mining chip foundries, fast Internet and electricity presumably being absolutely assured in the grim meathook Mad Max petrolpunk future. (And we can use colloidal Litecoin for antibiotics.)
Even lesser crises get them all excited. Nick Szabo wrote up how to fix the Greek financial crisis of 2015 with Bitcoin. Someone responded to the Cyprus financial crisis of 2013 (which did include the much-feared government haircut of bank account deposits over the insured €100,000) with a house music anthem about “the blockchain.”
This one is completely true and accurate, but Bitcoin advocates don’t seem to like mentioning it for some reason.
