It is difficult to quantify the multiple dimensions in which the community has been affected since the project began, just as it is also difficult to anticipate the various ways in which Bitcoin is changing the lives of its users around the world. However, there is one thing that Mike particularly points out: “It’s interesting to highlight how Bitcoin changed the time preference, specifically of young people in El Zonte.”

Time preference is the subjective value by which an individual discounts the value of the future. It is always preferable to have something in the present than to have to wait for something to come, since any future promise has a lower probability of occurring….

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