TD₿: Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom by Alex Gladstein
TL;DR Bitcoin has always been a tool of freedom in order to overcome financial controls and censorship.
Hey Bitcoiners,
The narrative around Bitcoin seems to be changing from a store of value and inflation-hedge, to censorship-resistant money that can’t be seized.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone given the political environment we find ourselves in today.
People in the Western world are beginning to wake up to the fact that governments have the power to easily de-bank and censor any individual or group of individuals they disagree with.
Recent developments in Canada have woken up the Western world to this, but in reality, strict financial controls have been going on for decades in less developed economies around the world.
Alex Gladstein raises awareness of how Bitcoin has been used as a tool for freedom in Venezuela and abroad in this article (12/28/2018).
Bitcoin has been and always will be freedom money.
Tick tock next block,
Cory Klippsten
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