Bitcoin is freedom technology, providing the ability for people to opt out of monetary systems that don't serve their needs. It's a technological-monetary-social-political revolution disguised as a get rich quick scheme. The average person is no doubt in it to make money, but in satisfying their greed they are unknowingly fueling a technology which has a good chance of changing the world in fundamental ways.

You could also say it's like a trojan horse. Irresistibly beautiful, but inside lies the seeds of destruction that could free people from oppression and allow better and more efficient human organization. A Bitcoin moonboy in the USA fueled by their selfish greed is helping to empower someone on the other side of the world living under an authoritarian regime with hyperinflation and financial censorship.

I think this is a beautiful alignment of incentives. We accept that people are greedy, and provide them something that satisfies their greed, which is used to build a better financial system for the world.

Slightly tangential, but I'm generally fascinated by the idea of aligning incentives to create mechanisms that do good in the world. Instead of expecting people to be different than their base natures, change the game they're playing such that allowing them to follow human instinct effects positive change in the world. I don't yet have a clear idea how this could be applied to something like environmentalism, but it does make me wonder if it's possible. Is there a way to incentivise greed and harness the power to reduce CO2, clean the oceans, and restore ecosystems?