Whatever you may think about Bitcoin itself, the _story_ of Bitcoin is impressive. Bitcoin started as a small, open source hacker project by an anonymous fellow on the internet. Somehow, this has snowballed to the point where an entire datacenter's worth of custom computing power is being thrown at it. That's inspiring and amazing no matter how you slice it.

Amidst the on-going onslaught against our digital world, it's refreshing to see what people can accomplish using open source ideals.