Bitcoin’s Fatal Flaw: A 15-Year-Old Prophecy and the Green Solution We Must Embrace For over a decade, Bitcoin has been synonymous with financial revolution—a decentralized, unstoppable force for change. But what if its core design was fundamentally flawed from the very start? What if its greatest strength, its security model, is actually a doomsday clock? This isn't a new, skeptical take. This warning came from within Bitcoin's own community just one year after its creation, and today, that prophecy is being fulfilled with alarming precision. The 2010 Prophecy: A Warning From Bitcoin's Own Forum On August 6, 2010, on the Bitcintalk.org forum—the same forum where Satoshi Nakamoto once posted—a user named "gridecon" penned a message that should have changed everything. While others debated price, gridecon saw the "fundamental perversity of wasting large amounts of energy" as Bitcoin's core weakness. He argued that this energy-intensive "minting...