Well, you did cite Krugman on monetary theory in your first comment, so I don't know that this discussion is all that tangential. The idea that there's a beneficial role for the central bank to play in an economy is complete anathema to a fair number of people online, and it turns out that a lot of them take an interest in Bitcoin because of this bug and/or feature, despite BTC's many obvious flaws. The fact that so many libertarian-minded "hard money" types have taken a sanguine view of BTC as an online currency is quite fascinating. Whether we like it or not, the role of the central bank is an inherently political/ideological question that has a lot to do with whether people see value in things like BTC that have no central banking role.