Bitcoin’s beautifully designed characteristics mean it is poised to have an impact in people’s lives in the most unstable economies (like Argentina and Venezuela, for example), where the government heavily manipulates its money. As a brief primer, countries like Venezuela and Argentina have experienced times where their governments printed so much of their own currency that their citizens were not able to spend it fast enough before it would lose value. This has happened multiple times in each country and, as a result, their entire monetary systems fell apart, and affected citizens had to find an alternative medium of exchange. People are entitled to freedom as a human right, and governments who ruin their own money arguably take away their people’s economic freedom. Their access to the same economic opportunities as the rest of the world is virtually non-existent, and thus the greatest thing they desire is a currency that can’t be controlled by a reckless central authority. In 1912, Ludwig von Mises, a renowned Austrian economist, wrote in The Theory of Money and Credit that sound money “has two aspects. It is affirmative in approving the market’s choice of a commonly used medium of exchange. It is negative in obstructing the government’s propensity to meddle with the currency system.”