No, you were given a piece of a worthless token by the mining pool. If you ever want to get anything with that worthless token somebody else has to lose money. That somebody makes the bet that another somebody will be an idiot and lose more money so he can get his back.

And that money came from someone. You can’t win in crypto unless someone else loses. Typically it’s vulnerable people wishing for a get rich quick hack who lose.

It was until the authorities learned how easy it is to connect transactions to actual people.

I have a friend who works in Microsoft and he says they regularly use GPT to write their activity reports and such into a nice form that looks like they put in effort and their managers regularly use GPT to reduce those to a few simple sentences. So this is not even a joke.

Should we get engagement rings?

That’s not really how currencies work. They are not just something arbitrary, they are a thing people trade which has value formed by supply and demand. People buy dollars to be able to buy things that are sold in dollars. Same goes for other currencies.

What would be the demand for UN currency? What can you buy with it? How would the price be determined?

The idea that USA somehow hugely benefits from having so much international trade done in dollars is also a bit weak. It does give them some international clout but that’s about it. There are some very complicated things relating to trade balances involved when your currency is the global reserve currency.