In the first world, bitcoin is mostly a investment and store of value. In other places, it is more than that.
This is what real investigative journalism looks like.
Ian Burrell, who was a big #Bitcoin sceptic, came to Africa with us with an open and curious mind. Through the trip and meeting people where they were, found a narrative outside of what he thought.
FYI - Ian is one of the top investigative journalists of our time (and a pretty great human being)
Reinforces how hard it is to stop an idea based on truth, hope and abundance, because “eventually” good people will discover it for themselves.
https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin
Discussion
The average first world’er may not need bitcoin, but they’ll definitely benefit if the average third world’er finally has a reliable life raft that the first world values, and will eventually rely on for the same reasons the third world needs that life raft. Fiat is a disease.