It's also a first-class lesson to a lot of young technologists as to how financial regulations and the modern banking system came to exist in the first place. T

It's also a first-class lesson to a lot of young technologists as to how financial regulations and the modern banking system came to exist in the first place. Thankfully bitcoin was so well designed that we can ultimately trust the math behind it, but the code is still malleable by people who may not have the network's best intentions in mind.