it's so stupid and nefarious... why wouldn't you just say "guessing large numbers" or something muuuuuch simpler?

Obviously to make it sound cooler than it actually is.

To the extent that progressives don't believe in private property, this is accurate.

Say more...?

I mean, bitcoin is about radical private property... unconfiscable, immutable, uninflatable... taking the power out of the hands of the PUBLIC. leftists hate that.