Alex Gladstein is democracy’s hype man: a human-rights advocate whose documented role in the canon is instructing Bitcoin Twitter on whom to love.

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Gladstein debuted in March 2023 on a Bitcoin Magazine Twitter Space, weighing in on the controversy over Jason Lowery‘s federally certified organic engagement: “You should like Jason Lowery, and support him with all your energy because he is the poster boy for Democracy. Jason is like Bitcoin’s version of Captain America. He is representing the power that will defeat dictator Vladamir Putin” (CIA Director Insists Jason Lowery’s Engagement Is Organic). The endorsement forms part of the promotional chorus of the Softwar rollout.

irl: The real Alex Gladstein is chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation and one of Bitcoin’s most prominent humanitarian advocates (“Check Your Financial Privilege”). The “Vladamir” spelling is the article’s own.