Yuval is one of the conscious bad actors. Much like Brad Sherman talking about bitcoin threatening the petro-dollar, Yuval says the quiet part out loud all the time. He has a god complex. He would probably say that the world can only be made better if people like him can amass the power to force "better" things onto the world. It makes perfect sense that he would be opposed to #bitcoin.

People who want to force trusted interactions on people only want to do so in order to gain the ability to violate that trust. Honest people do not require trust, they do not seek the confidence of others as validation at all. They simply create useful things & provide proof of work.

I don't think I am overstating things to say that this man is a decent representation of evil in human form. You can see why it might be loosely confused with rational intelligence. But he is motivated by a desire for power & control & envy, rather than a desire to create & earn anything. Only one of those paths is actually rational & intelligent.