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Eh, I think it's going to draw people to the pub more than anything else. And if you're a bitcoin evangelist, I could understand sinking your disposable income into a cool thing that might get more people into the currency. Current BTC owners/speculators only stand to profit from userbase growth because the currency growth rate is fixed or very controlled if I understand the system correctly. Probably wouldn't make 25k back, but it softens the blow a bit.

As a side note, I just realized BTC may become a really good existence proof for Piketty's r > g proposition, though one probably can't extend that idea out to economics in general because bitcoin is so weird.