He saw a wedge issue forming early and took advantage, 100%
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It's fucking stupid. Bitcoin has aspects that both major political parties should've able to rally behind.
Take power away from the state? ✅
Allow unbanned and marginalized people to be included in the financial system? ✅
It's honestly this simple, but we work incredibly hard to make things difficult for us here.
I hear you, and I’d add it kind of further shows how the parties aren’t after what’s in the best interest of people. It’s not all bad— I feel like I’ve moved past believing in politics as the primary driver of change since bitcoin.
Marginalised people being left out of financial systems is a huge issue, most homeless people I've spoken to has expressed a lack of being able to bank as a contributing factor, can't get a house without a bank, can't save money without a bank, can't get a job without a bank, if you only hold cash you're a target for robbery and robbery can deplete you to a much larger degree, a homeless person could memorise the words or store off person, have a QR code on a sign which would even allow use of things like block explorers to "know" they're not a fake homeless person (fairly common in the UK and is a cited reason why a lot don't give ot homeless people) not only that but post covid a much larger amount of people are cashless leading to homeless people getting given a lot less money
homeless here in Austin are almost all on the needle