A guy I play pick-up football with works at Binance, and he's friends with a guy who's a crypto YouTuber, and this crypto YouTuber genuinely gets mad when people like Larry Fink badmouth Bitcoin.

Honestly, why?

Who gives a flying FUQ what Larry Fink thinks?

If I had a dollar for every time a rich dude said "bitcoin bad", I'd be able to buy 100 BTC.

If I had an extra dollar for every time they've been wrong, I'd be able to buy another 100 BTC.

Larry Fink recently backtracked and said the equivalent of "bitcoin bad".

It's a genuine question: why do we care?

IT-DOES-NOT-MATTER.

Expressing an opinion on BTC is like expressing an opinion on the sun setting west and rising east: it'll continue to happen, it doesn't matter what people say.