We now have a different incentive mechanism, and it's interesting to see companies out in Africa cooperating.

Like, I think the Bitcoin system just has different incentives.

You've got companies cooperating, and because everything's open and it's one standard,

it's very, very different from the monopolist kind of capitalist structures we've had in the past

that trend towards monopolization and rent-seeking and exploitation.

This is a system that trends potentially towards cooperation and lowering the cost for people.

So I think that that's my biggest takeaway.

This year, as I've started to sort of notice this incentive design of Bitcoin, like maybe

really, really paying off in terms of empowering communities

and maybe even nations in the future.

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voices helping bitcoiners understand, see and experience how Bitcoin is impacting communities

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