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Digital gold is a nice start, but there's certainly room for improvement. By which I mean: because software and protocols can be upgraded, we can make bitcoin offer security and utility far exceeding physical gold. https://t.co/EQb0I2LAPP For example: "Imagine someone stole something from you. You can’t get it back, but if you could, if it had a kill switch that could be remote triggered, would you do it? Would it be a good thing for thieves to know that everything you own has a kill switch and if they steal it, it’ll be useless to them, although you still lose it too? If they give it back, you can re-activate it. Imagine if gold turned to lead when stolen. If the thief gives it back, it turns to gold again." - Satoshi Nakamoto The functionality Satoshi envisioned is not practical to implement on the Bitcoin protocol of today. But it could be... without too much difficulty.