Edward Snowden sees China's crackdown beneficial for bitcoin

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Former CIA employee and contractor for the National Security Agency Edward Snowden said that China's crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry "just made Bitcoin stronger."
Sometimes I think back to this and wonder how many people bought #Bitcoin then.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 3, 2021
It's up ~10x since, despite a coordinated global campaign by governments to undermine public understanding of—and support for—cryptocurrency.
China even banned it, but it just made Bitcoin stronger. https://t.co/pbnOFGfaVf
Snowden retweeted his own March 2020 post about wanting to buy bitcoin and noted the asset's tenfold growth since then.