Exhibit 704: In early 2022, civil unrest erupted in Kazakhstan against their regime. Anti-coiners quickly blamed Bitcoin citing the presence of many miners in that country. Exploiting a crisis to scapegoat crypto is par for the course: https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1481653409254031362.

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While the news article they linked talked about how the civil unrest was actually affecting miners, anti-coiners reversed the cause-effect to make it look like miners were causing the unrest in the first place: https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1481652142473498631.

Once the lie was repeated often enough, it started to slip it into conversations like it was an established truth: https://twitter.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1541133091829231616.

And then used for further scapegoating wherever crypto has a presence. From New York to El Salvador to Texas.

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The end goal is to create a moral panic and stigmatise crypto: https://twitter.com/thetrocro/status/1617740406627930112.

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Tweet Reference: https://twitter.com/cryptohatelog/status/1763895668525957439