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Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B

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190 points aorloff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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Synaesthesia ◴[05 Jul 25 05:50 UTC] No.44470362[source]▶
I was also around when bitcoin just started out. Many people wanted it to be a global revolution in finance.

But instead it turned into a game of "hodl" to get rich.

Scams were openly perpetrated in the forums.

I became completely disillusioned. What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

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la_fayette ◴[05 Jul 25 08:03 UTC] No.44470950[source]▶
> What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

It is a highly reliable, global-scale P2P software system, we can analyse, experiment with and learn from.

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1. FabHK ◴[05 Jul 25 11:39 UTC] No.44472029[source]▶
Global scale using 1% of world electricity that can do 7 transactions per second, because the thousands and thousands of nodes don't trust each other and all do the same work.