

The power companies demanded guarantees, so they wouldn’t be on the hook for investing in infrastructure and power generation if the whole hype disappeared the next month. Tech bros then went “how can we do it quick and dirty when we can’t get others to pay for it?”
“he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked”
Yup, it exists.