If it can be frozen, it isn’t money

Venezuela’s USDT shock was the unpaid Bitcoin ad no one saw coming.

Imagine global finance as a hallway full of doors. Most of them only open if someone on the other side turns a key — a bank, a government, a compliance officer. Bitcoin is the one (and only) door that doesn’t need anyone else’s permission to open. Anyone with a wallet can walk through and freely transact 24/7/365 on a global scale, with a micro-payment …