Bill Gates’ Anti

In a recent interview at TechCrunch 2022, Bill Gates once again voiced his opposition to cryptocurrencies and NFTs, stating that average investors should not follow the example of celebrities investing in cryptocurrencies. A recent article in Interesting engineering States,

Gates said these digital assets were “100% based on a dumber theory,” that investors make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid higher.

Gates also took on the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that were all the rage last year. A long list of celebrities from the worlds of sports, entertainment and beyond have paid top dollar to acquire a digital image from a Bored Ape collection. Gates’ comments were full of sarcasm when he said, “expensive digital images of monkeys [will] make the world a whole lot better.”

However, a lot of people who have embraced crypto and NFTs won’t listen to Bill Gates, because he’s already their “perfect villain” – the main enemy of all that is good and free. Michelle Shen, writing for USA today, cites research by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenburg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Jamieson says: “In a world where nothing happens by chance, those with wealth are supposed to have the power to engage in evil activities and cover them up. As a result, Bill Gates is an inevitable subject of conspiracy theories.” Shen continues:

Unfounded and false conspiracies keep coming.

Like witches associated with Satan, Gates has dark allies in the form of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, and the Chinese government, according to inaccurate posts by conspiracy theorists on Reddit and 4chan.

Jamieson also uncovered in his research the lie that Fauci was on Microsoft’s board, making Gates his boss, spreading a false narrative that Gates’ goal is to erase America, similarly that witches were seen as a threat to Christianity.

Another false theory surrounding Gates is that the pandemic was his plan to depopulate the world and that vaccinations are a way to sterilize the population, a drastic leap from Gates’ efforts to raise awareness of overpopulation and climate change.

Rather than deter many crypto-curious right-wingers, Bill Gates’ anti-crypto statements might just add fuel to the conspiracy theory fire and make some After likely to turn to crypto. The QAnon crowd is increasingly peddling cryptocurrency, as is the “conspiracy” (conspiracy + spirituality) crowd, which includes comedian-turned-right-wing “freedom patriot” JP Sears and actor-turned-guru spiritual Russell Brand, among many others. The Conspiracy Podcast released a great episode last year showing how the conspiracy mob is exploiting the cryptocurrency craze. I’m sure this last statement from Gates will be another “evidence” used to “prove” that in fact they should do the opposite of what Gates is actually saying and investing in crypto.

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