It is a half decent Fermi approximation though.

All good, that was just how your comment read to me.

It’s not really fair to state that functional languages aren’t battle tested or imply they aren’t useful in real world problem solving, Erlang/Elixir prove that.

*divisive

If it was a Ponzi scheme from the get go he would have cashed out his billions by now.

Go read a bit of Satoshi’s white paper on Bitcoin. It was created in response to the banking industry as a way for individuals to securely own digital currency without a centralized institution.