University speaker booed for shilling bitcoin in ayahuasca-fuelled speech
A speaker at Ohio State University was booed by thousands of students this weekend as he delivered a bizarre bitcoin-shilling commencement speech that he claims to have written while under the influence of hallucinogenic drug, ayahuasca. Self-proclaimed social entrepreneur, investor, and m US ician Chris Pan was invited to speak at the university’s spring commencement — the ceremony at which graduating students receive their diplomas — on Sunday. During his speech , he shared financial advice he claimed would lead to “financial, emotional, and spiritual freedom.” However, he was roundly jeered by much of the 12,500-strong crowd when he started promoting Bitcoin and attempted to explain Bitcoin ETFs by performing a magic trick that apparently turned three-quarters into a physical Bitcoin . He then suggested that graduates could combat depression by singing, and tried to row back his bitcoin comments by offering everybody in the crowd a bracelet made b...