Oh wait .. Bitcoin has never gone down.

Let me guess...the prison gets more money the more prisoners they have incarcerated. They would have to pay money to have the software fixed so that they could lose money.

#HFSP

Its simple. The companies are hedging against USD money printing machine. USD is a terrible asset to hold if you are looking out 10, 20 years. Period. If you want to hear this direct from these companies mouths - Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) has posted many videos online explaining why.

IE : We live in a dark forest filled with predators, and every time a species gets enough tech to broadcast their location drawing the attention of the hunters they get vaporized. Everyone else learns to STFU and hide their existence.

The likely explanation is that we live in a Dark Forest. All life desires to stay alive. There is no way to know if other lifeforms can or will destroy you if given a chance. Lacking assurances, the safest option for any species is to annihilate other life forms before they have a chance to do the same. Since species are risk-averse and willing to do anything to save themselves, contact of any kind is dangerous, as it almost assuredly would lead to the contacted race wiping out whoever was foolish enough to give away their location. This leads to all civilizations attempting to hide in radio silence.

There is another more likely scenario. 4) We live in a dark forest filled with predators, and every time a species gets enough tech to broadcast their location drawing the attention of the hunters they get vaporized. Everyone else learns to STFU and hide their existence.