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Progressives, welcome to #Bitcoin! Bitcoin is an inclusive monetary and savings technology that resists control by oligarchs. As such, it fits nicely into the progressive worldview.

In this thread, I'm collecting pro-Bitcoin essays by progressives. (DM me more of them!)
"Global wealth inequality is increasing. Meanwhile government-backed currencies, where most of the poor save their money, are devaluing. Poor people lack access to banking, and they can’t get credit. #Bitcoin helps fix wealth inequality." -- @rettlerb

iai.tv/articles/the-rich-get-richer-the-poor-get-bitcoin-auid-1766
"Progressives can adopt #Bitcoin now, collectively owning a larger stake in the world’s decentralized censorship-resistant monetary network, or forfeit that stake to dictatorships and opportunistic domestic politicians. The clock’s ticking." -- @Do82Nic

theprogressivecaseforbitcoin.medium.com/why-progressives-must-adopt-bitcoin-6030ca30f5bd
"The wealthiest users can’t change the rules of the system, nor can they block the poorest users from having access. The only technology anyone on Earth needs to take part on equal terms in the network is a phone with internet access." -- @MazMHussain

www.coindesk.com/elizabeth-warrens-bitcoin-blind-spot
"Bitcoin is the most democratized form of money ever created. Nobody owns or controls Bitcoin, and everyone can take part." -- @samanthamess8

@samanthamessing/why-progressives-should-love-bitcoin-an-open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth-warren-176ab5cc9229' target='_blank'>medium.com/@samanthamessing/why-progressives-should-love-bitcoin-an-open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth-...
"They were creating content for Digital Citizen Fund, a non-profit with the mission of making more women in Afghanistan digitally literate. PayPal wasn’t an option, so Women’s Annex Foundation paid the girls in bitcoin." -- @EmilyNRome

www.inverse.com/innovation/57129-fereshteh-forough-afghanistan-bitcoin
"Bitcoin is a revolutionary new tool to:
- Combat climate change and end the reign of fossil fuels
- End corruption and forever wars
- Fix wealth and income inequality and build financial inclusion
- Increase transparency" -- @tomjmaxwell

medium.com/coinmonks/the-cantillonian-oligarchy-why-the-left-should-embrace-bitcoin-65f3a45ffca0
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” -- @gladstein

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/can-bitcoin-bring-palestine-freedom
"Donors should be looking at Bitcoin payments and mining as tools to reduce corruption, diminish dependency and help renewable energy overcome adoption obstacles worldwide" -- @gladstein

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-humanitarian-and-environmental
"87% of people are born into autocracy or considerably less trustworthy currencies. 4.3 billion people live under authoritarianism, and 1.2 billion people live under double- or triple-digit inflation... #Bitcoin critics tend not to."

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-privilege
"#Bitcoin is not just “number go up” technology. Hidden behind the eye-popping gains is a powerful “freedom go up” technology that its new adopters are, knowingly or not, pushing forward. NGU and FGU are inextricable." -- @gladstein

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-a-trojan-horse-for-freedom
"Maybe you don't need bitcoin. But don't write off bitcoin as simply a vehicle for financial speculation. For millions of people around the world, it's an escape hatch from tyranny—nothing less than freedom money." -- @gladstein

reason.com/video/2021/02/05/bitcoin-is-protecting-human-rights-around-the-world/
"#Bitcoin is poised to offer a stable foundation during a time of what may be wild fluctuations in currency values... It offers a vehicle for growing and protecting wealth in an era when central banks are growing their balance sheets." -- @NSmolenski

valued.nataliesmolenski.com/blog/now-is-the-time-to-think-about-value
"No other institution is built to allow everybody to use it to the extent Bitcoin is. This makes it the world’s most inclusive institution. You don’t need to live in any particular country. You can be any age, any race, any gender." -- @TomerStrolight

tomerstrolight.medium.com/why-bitcoin-is-the-worlds-most-inclusive-institution-a5d4a6ea6625
"Bitcoin — like clean water, good roads, or a solid power grid — is for anyone. But it needs infrastructure. Governments can help, and so create new opportunities for prosperity and financial inclusion." -- @rettlerb & @resistancemoney

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-an-orange-new-deal
“Bitcoin,” Farida Nabourema said, “is money that is actually decentralized and accessible to anyone in the world regardless of their skin color, ideology, nationality, amount of wealth or colonial past. It's the currency of deconolonization.”

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-a-currency-of-decolonization
“My goal is to spread the word about Bitcoin as an enabler of financial fairness and social change… the positive real world implications that a truly permissionless, uncensorable, neutral digital asset with a fixed supply offers.” — @AnitaPosch (book)

learnbitcoin.link
“#Bitcoin's rules can’t be corrupted by governments or billionaires. It gives underprivileged individuals — from developing nations, women, minorities, etc — the chance to participate in a free and private manner with each other.” - The @AnitaPosch show

bitcoinundco.com/en/
#Bitcoin  is the digital money for a free world. To invest in it is to invest in humanity. Bitcoin can do for money what the Internet did for information, but it needs infrastructure. Governments should build Bitcoin infrastructure. — me, @resistancemoney

www.newsweek.com/governments-should-invest-bitcoin-network-opinion-1623331
"#Bitcoin mining is perfectly suited to rely on renewables and waste energy. The opportunity before us is not just to build a Bitcoin network that relies on renewables, but also utilizes waste streams from oil and gas production operations." - @Suaz80

www.emergingenergyinsights.com/2021/09/the-argument-for-mining-bitcoin-from-clean-energy-and-waste-en...
"98% of domestic violence victims experience economic abuse. Most cite financial dependence as a primary barrier to escaping. #Bitcoin empowers Survivors to buy, sell, and store value without their abuser knowing or requiring permission." -- @Do82Nic

theprogressivecaseforbitcoin.medium.com/framing-bitcoin-for-progressives-4494b4b8fe9c
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