That was always what I wondered about the Softwar thesis: how is Bitcoin securing anything outside of itself / its network. That feels like a peg and pegs are fake.
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This is a bit of a stupid and trivial example, but in the casine on cornychat, we'd bet on the last letter on the block hash for a specific block in the future.
It makes for a very fair and egalitarian betting scheme, where there's no house advantage. So Bitcoin's mining can actually secure globally synchronized random outcomes for use in other places.