Alex Gladstein – CSO of the Human Rights Foundation – thinks bitcoin symbolizes some of the USA’s values based on the Declaration of Independence: free speech, property rights, and open capital markets.

Gladstein sees it as an embodiment of liberty, free speech, and decentralization, meaning it could flourish in democratic nations. On the other hand, it has a slight chance of success in “tyrannies and police states” that prefer to surveil people and restrict their monetary freedom. 

“I think bitcoin fixes democracy… because I think democracies have been disabled and infected with fiat currency essentially, and I think they’ll be much better off on the other side, whereas I think tyrannies and police states are going to have a really hard time on the bitcoin standard.”