I know the blocksize wars are well and truly behind us, but how's this for an analogy;
When roads get full with cars, the State's approach is to build more roads. Outcome? Townplanning spreads out development requiring more use of cars.
Moral to the story; Let the market work out how to utilise what is already there?
What happens if the computer Satoshi was mining bitcoin on was actually lost and is now located at some flea market ready to be picked up for a few bucks?
Hey #austriches, if your government wasn't actually there to serve the people, but instead to manager the population on behalf of a global cartel, how would it look?