What made him to reply this?
That fella has spent his whole life working in and researching the relationship between money and state. Of course anything that comes along to defecate all over that is not going to be to his taste. He's super interventionist.
In general left wing types do not warm to what Bitcoin offers. They prefer to keep populations firmly in the state's embrace.
And most of the time, they do not fully understand the technology yet.
They give statement according to their grasp of what is happening.
But I strongly believe that if he will learn more of the nature of bitcoin or crypto, he will change stance.
Like all of us who started as newbies in crypto, I guess a lot of us are hesitant at first.
But as time goes by and learn more about this, we started to appreciate crypto.