They used the land to build a workplace and employed the people living there to get a job as a sort of "compensation" for taking their land. While I appreciate the fact that the people were given jobs, it did not change the balance of power towards the people. It also depends on whom you include in the word "people" - the owners of the mining company can also be included in it because they are also using bitcoin.

So my opinion is that using this topic to conclude that the natives got "power" is a wrong conclusion - rather it gave them a job opportunity to work somewhere and earn a living - that is more appropriate.

Owning a land and working on previously sold land as a day worker - these are different things. One would always want the first one and that is what the Natives have been deprived off for long. I am not saying that the mining company is bad, they need to grow and expand too.