Intriguingly, as the date for the airing of the documentary has drawn near, a number of high-value wallets from the “Satoshi era” have become active for the first time since 2009.

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    9 days ago

    What service did they provide to humanity, one more speculative asset but that also contributes to global warming?

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      9 days ago

      How about sound money that works at the speed of information, unlike gold, and can replace our banking system and all the fossil fuels needed to run it?

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          9 days ago

          True, it’s not private and has too low throughput for transactions per second to be used as day-to-day currency, but something like Monero intends to solve both of those things. There are actually people accepting Monero as a day-to-day currency and living off of it, including myself.