Your question has focused too much in the Bitcoin implementation issues and not on blockchain implementations where the issue with mining doesn&#x27;t happen because they use other alternatives like PoS or in private blockchains just votes per entity.<p>I think the noise in the community is related to the combination of political community (e.g. anarchochapitalists), great security developers, fintech hype, and dark markets. A lot of people think this is a sectir to make easy money.<p>Having said that, the whole startup sector is full of hype but if you take a look all startup sectors are full of hype. Just compare what media says about a company to then realize their real numbers are not so good and full of red lights.