Bitcoin has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. My hope when mining bitcoin briefly in 2010 was to contribute to something that might be able to scale large enough to permit unbanked kids like the one I used to be to be able to store hundreds or maybe even thousands of dollars of value by using their brains instead of their brawn (or in my case lack thereof).

We all see bitcoin from our own biased perspective. But bitcoin changes you. Slowly but inevitably. I was naive to think bitcoin needed my help to grow, but I’m glad satoshi cleverly balanced incentives to make growing spheres of humanity serve bitcoin and thereby serve each other.