I appreciated Ben Arcs viewpoint on What Bitcoin did podcast. He highlighted how Nostr removed the political baggage of bitcoin and simply showed it as a technology.

This allowed anyone who had dismissed bitcoin on a political level to become reacquainted with it on the technical level and see it in a new and pure way.

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It’s (fat clients, thin servers) certainly opened my eyes as an alternative to smart contract platforms for decentralised censorship resistance

What is the political baggage of Bitcoin (serious question)? I will listen to pod

Thinking it’s political is the baggage, it’s agnostic to ideologies so attributing it to any of them is where the confusion comes from. Bitcoin is for everyone.