One month ago, Harshvardhan (“Hash”), an alumni of the MIT Bitcoin Club and an organizer for the MIT Freedom Tech Expo, told me in an interview about how a friend of his who is a social worker in Nepal and who was on the ground during the recent protests in the country doesn’t like Bitcoin.

“There’s a lot of people with left-leaning ideology who still think bitcoin is a capitalistic tool, and they’re not very comfortable with it yet,” explained Hash.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this point he made since we spoke.

As someone who was formerly more politically Liberal, I still have a lot of friends and acquaintances who seemingly shudder at the mere…

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