Why this report on refugees using bitcoin is so important. Until now we’ve not had a quantified report showing the volume of people benefitting from bitcoin. That has meant critics could say “oh but social benefit x is only impacting a few people”, or “oh but that’s just anecdotal” Now, that response is not possible. Now, there is not just evidence but quantified evidence about the lives of those in need that bitcoin supports: ie - the displayed men, women and children who are most vulnerable people in the world. Now, when you claim out of ignorance “bitcoin has no use” you are saying “the lives of 329,000 refugees are useless” I’ll be jumping on a couple of podcasts to share the report in a week or two. In the meantime, have a read. It’s very visual and feasible and it will help you stop dead the “bitcoin is useless” FUD and orange pill more people who care about humanitarian causes.
Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI) just put out an amazing report on bitcoin use among refugees. 329k have already used bitcoin to take safely across borders. Could reach 7.5M by 2035. At this point, people who still think bitcoin has no usecase are just plain clueless
Media like The Guardian loves to highlight a problem. But refuses to cover the well-documented solution. The solution is bitcoin mining. It does not require government subsidies, it’s already ended flaring in a lot of regions, it could end the wasteful and polluting practice of gas flaring around the world, but The Guardian has been complicit in helping perpetuate the practice of flaring by its ignorant attacks on the solution that can quickly end the very problem it keeps on pointing out. image
For 3 months I've been working on exposing what IMF has done behind the scenes to prevent Nation State Bitcoin adoption It's out in the open now👇 Thanks to John Perkins, @gladstein for inspiring this and HRF, @BitcoinMagazine for the support