19 benefits of Bitcoin that most people have never heard about... Note: these are not hypothetical, or isolated benefits - but existing uses that are currently impacting an exponentially growing set of people Humanitarian benefits 1. Getting aid to millions of war refugees wired.com/story/ukraine-cryp… 2. Allowing refugees to take savings safely across borders and re-establish their lives (it is estimated 329,000 refugees have done this so far) cnbc.com/2022/03/23/ukrainia… 3. Providing freedom from hyperinflation, or high inflation to 231 Million people cointribune.com/en/argentina… 4. Having a safe store of value in autocratic nations that lack a safe banking system fanews.co.za/article/cryptoc… cnbc.com/2023/03/26/bitcoin-… bbc.com/news/world-africa-56… 5. Giving women to financial equity in nations that practice State-level discrimination against women bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/… 6. Allowing people in developing nations to receive remittance payments from family without delays and without heavy fees, or loss of purchasing power in the 8 closed countries with dual-exchange rates thenextweb.com/news/el-salva… 7. Providing freedom from overnight currency debasement for 14 African nations experiencing French monetary colonization foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/03… 8. Verifying, and improving, the integrity of electoral processes in semi-autocratic nations finance.yahoo.com/news/rafae… 9. Providing banking to the unbanked (>2 billion unbanked in the world, mostly in autocratic nations) cnbc.com/2023/03/26/bitcoin-… impact.economist.com/project… 10. Removing the risk of financial reprisal for running humanitarian campaigns in autocratic nations where 5.7Billion people live journalofdemocracy.org/onlin… Energy (ending energy poverty, creating energy security) 11. Providing energy abundance to multiple villages in Africa who were previously without power unherd.com/2024/01/the-afric… 12. Developing energy independence for nation-states, such as Bhutan, Ethiopia forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/… Environmental benefits 13. Reducing more emissions from landfills than the largest DAC project in the world ever achieved renewableenergymagazine.com/… 14. Accelerating the renewable transition by making renewable generation more profitable news.cornell.edu/stories/202… 15. Developing a monetary system with significantly lower emissions and emissions intensity than the banking system nasdaq.com/articles/a-compar… 16. Becoming the world's most sustainably powered major industry forkast.news/bitcoin-minings… 17. Rescuing a National Park in Africa technologyreview.com/2023/01… Benefits to liberal democracies 18. Having an international, borderless currency that governments cannot surveil or freeze, with fixed monetary supply that prevents - irresponsible govt funding of forever-wars, - passing debt burdens to future generations and - inflationary money printing that widens wealth gaps amazon.com/Engine-Inequality… 19. Providing a financial system that is harder to use for money laundering than fiat currency decrypt.co/125623/crooks-def…