Apparently the Ohio State president is on a bitcoin mining company board and invited an OSU alumna who hawked bitcoin to give the commencement speech. You can’t make this shit up!
“After the singalong, Mr Pan began talking about investment, which eventually led to him recommending Bitcoin as a "very misunderstood asset class," earning audible boos and laughs from the crowd”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ohio-state-graduation-commencement-speaker-b2542310.html
Sing-a-longs, crypto-shilling, and written on Ayahuasca: Ohio State’s commencement speech gone wrong
Chris Pan’s Ohio State University speech was a bizarre cocktail of sing-a-longs, crypto-shilling, and jewelry-slinging that left many in the audience stunned, Graig Graziosi reports.
The IndependentI’ve never cared for the way Ohio State completely dominates Ohio higher education (as an alumna and former employee of University of Cincinnati) so anything that makes Ohio State look like total dorks is catnip to me