Not a good take.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian
As a political philosophy, libertarianism says nothing about respecting others' views and lifestyles -- let alone celebrate and cherish stupidities and absurdities. It certainly doesn't prescribe us to live and let live.
It says we MAY NOT USE VIOLENCE (= esp STATE coercion) to enforce beliefs we may have onto others.
It doesn't say I have to be nice. It doesn't implore me to be compassionate. It doesn't mean I have to respect and allow into my home dispicable and degenerate shit.
I can insult you all I want. I can refuse to engage with you because you're ugly, vegan, "autistic," or believe that Bitcoin is compatible with leftism. I can ridicule your pathetic ideas or lifestyle, in public or in private. I can tell nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde off for thoroughly misunderstanding what libertarian means or what its philosophy or ethics prescribes, or nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc who certainly should know better.
Libertarianism is a non-smart contract: it asks about physical violence, initiation of force, and state power. Nothing more.
The rest-- religion, etiquette, values, behavior -- it relegates to a social level.
Living in harmony with others doesn't mean to embrace any odd retarded thing they do or say. it means to NOT throw them in jail for it
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Bitcoin, or any hard money, inherently aligns with Sowell’s constrained vision because it is itself a constraint.
Anyone holding to the unconstrained vision while simultaneously supporting and promoting Bitcoin will eventually run into a situation where the contradiction becomes apparent. It will be interesting to see how they respond.
I don’t think you can place Bitcoin as a technology into Sowell’s model. People, yes.
What the ideas are of a Bitcoiner with an unconstrained vision, though, is an interesting question. I don’t think it’d as simple as laid out in your comment.
If you ask me, the people pushing for centralization via publicly traded mining companies, ETF bag-pumping, or US gov’t bag pumping via a strategic reserve, more closely hold the unconstrained vision than those of us who are skeptical of centralized power.
Willing to debate that point.
It’s all trade-offs toward promoting freedom tech.
