Limited supply and security aside, the public ledger could do wonders for government spending transparency. Can you imagine if you could build a dapp for US expenditure? It would tear down misconceptions about spending and people might be able to see where the money actually goes.

Ahhh, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the detailed clarification!

I'm confused. Did Satoshi Nakamoto join GitHub two days ago?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors?from=2009-08-30&to=2010-12-31&type=c
https://github.com/satoshinnakamoto

How does this make any sense?

Isn't Proof of Stake the literal implementation of the rich get richer though? I suppose Proof of Work is the same, but it's a shame that it can't be implemented another way. Every public consensus algorithm seems to collapse to rich get richer by necessity :/