So to get a "free" Bitcoin, all's you have to do is come up with a number (between 0 and 21 million) that nobody has come up with yet? That sounds trivially easy for the people who started up Bitcoin, then it gets progressively harder and harder, and more and more expensive to buy the hardware needed to do the searches, finally converging to impossible.

Doesn't that sound like a "pyramid scheme", where the early adopters rake in the cash and the poor schmucks at the end are just making the early adopters richer and richer? This is all assuming that "owning" a bunch of numbers has value in the first place.

The more Bitcoin is explained to me, the more my jaw drops in awe that people would actually, intentionally, of their own free will, buy into this. A herd of lemmings could conquer Bitcoin owners in short order.

Lets hope the power doesn't go out for these poor lemming-wanna-bes. Poof Bitcoins!