Bitcoin Over Basics: The Delusion Driving Pakistan's Policy Vantage with Palki Sharma
Bitcoin Over Basics: The Delusion Driving Pakistan's Policy | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Bitcoin Over Basics: The Delusion Driving Pakistan's Policy | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Pakistan is broke. Power cuts last for hours, rivers are drying up, and the economy is hanging by a thread. Yet, the government has a grand new plan: mine Bitcoin. Islamabad wants to divert 2000 megawatts of power—enough for a mid-sized city—into crypto mining, even as hospitals and homes go dark. With the IMF raising alarms, this moonshot looks more like a nosedive. Can a country collapsing under debt and dysfunction really bet its future on blockchain? Palki Sharma tells you.
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