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Does the end result of more people having free access to the information wikipedia provides, justify the zero rating/preferential treatment by ISPs of the site?

The monetary supply is tailored to the needs of the economy to prevent volatility and create value. By being able to buy or sell anything and have the currency worth a predictable amount there are many transactions that can happen that would not be possible with a more volatile currency.

Increased memory usage is directly related to the silicon size. ASIC mining could be more efficient, but not orders of magnitude so like with bitcoin.