&gt; no one will accept your patches to bump up the 21 million bitcoin supply...not so democratic.<p>Why would anyone willingly dilute their own money?<p>&gt; legitimate critiques are always brushed off with really absurd replies<p>&gt; And then we look at the environmental costs, and that&#x27;s not good. Or the deflationary economics of the system itself, and those aren&#x27;t good either. Or how it seems a lot more like an elaborate ponzi scheme, and that&#x27;s not good either.<p>These are not legitimate critiques without real data to back them up.  Without real data they are conjecture based on emotion.