Had occasion today to revisit this wonderful piece by Alex Gladstein. Truly inspirational and astonishing to see bitcoin revolutionizing the world in action.
Some powerful extracts:
"The lights were all turning on, all across the foothills of Mount Mulanje. It was a powerful sight to see, and staggering to think that Bitcoin is helping to make it happen as it converts wasted energy into human progress."
"Bitcoin is often framed by critics as a waste of energy. But in Bondo, like in so many other places around the world, it becomes blazingly clear that if you aren’t mining Bitcoin, you are wasting energy. What was once a pitfall is now an opportunity. Bitcoin miners can be thought of as dung beetles, scraping up the waste energy that no one else wants and transforming it into something valuable."
And truly, this:
"For hundreds of millions of people, it may not in the end be the United Nations or Bill and Melinda Gates or the World Bank that bring them into the 21st century, but an open source software network, with no known inventor, and controlled by no company or government."