Thanks man!

My impression is that there’s a large overlap between bitcoiners and libertarians. I’d venture most are in the libertarian-to-ancap spectrum, no?

As for the libertarians who aren’t bitcoiners or at least bitcoin-curious, I think it’s mostly hardcore goldbugs.

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I graduated College 2007.

This resonates. RP planted seeds.

Market Crash and Satoshi were the second phase of the inception.

Graduated ‘09 and actually helped host RP at my fraternity. Was the most genuine politician I’ve ever met after 4 years of college in New Hampshirite

Followed back. This is the way. 🫡

We let him park his van in the fray parking lot, and even though he didn’t have to, spent 20 minutes hanging out and talking with people befor heading to the event somewhere else on campus, genuinely cared 🫡

Class of ‘07 here too. Ayn Rand and Ron Paul changed my life that year. Unfortunately didn’t get into bitcoin until much much later.

Zach, I think you’re right… most Bitcoiners tend to be ancaps which is one small subset of libertarians. But still always surprised that I rarely see politically active libertarians on BT or Nostr. We need to bring some more on here!

Wow, we are the exact same graduating class, similar philosophical trajectories...

This is the Way.

Yeah, I was going to say that I think there is tremendous overlap with libertarians and Bitcoiners. I came to libertarianism first and it wasn’t until I understood Austrian Economics that I finally grasped Bitcoin

Having been in the Bitcoin space and tapping into Bitcoin Twitter/Nostr, I feel like every Bitcoiner is a libertarian (even if they don’t identify as one).

Even though I once fell in this camp, I’m surprised that more libertarians aren’t Bitcoiners. I’m actually starting to think that Bitcoiners are far more organized than libertarian and. The latter needs to take notes from the former.

The OG Cypherpunks were “Hayekian”

Cryptography is libertarian at its core.

Math and Freedom.

It’s full circle really.

The more I dig, the more I think the key to personal freedom might be finding like minded people and building your own personal “nation” of like minded freedom loving people

I sure want to keep helping spread that to the masses, but freedom is an individual concept

Even in the freest society, each individual would still have to fight for their own version of freedom

Spot on 🤙