Anti-Bitcoin activism is lazy and safe

From an article by Win Ko Ko Aung, immigrant from Burma and Human Rights activist. Totally worth reading.

Being an anti-Bitcoin activist is the safest job in the world. There are no social penalties and no legal risks for telling other people to remain poor in the fiat world. They sip their Starbucks, swipe an AmEx card, and criticize Bitcoin from their iPhone in their comfortable apartment with 24/7 electricity. It is not a campaign for social equality, merely virtue signaling.

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To this day I wonder, how many political dissidents got arrested because their fiat bank accounts were tracked? Because they learned from media that Bitcoin is for criminals? So they decided to use a KYC network, yet lost their mission or freedom.

To this day I wonder, how many villages rich with natural resources still sit in darkness, because prestigious research papers falsely claim Bitcoin mining will destroy the world? So these communities continue to miss the chance to harness their flowing rivers and the regenerative sun for power and progress._[…]

The article can be found here: https://progressivebitcoiner.org/anti-bitcoin-activism-is-cool-but-at-what-cost-to-the-rest-of-the-world/