I'm a proud bitcoiner and I believe in Bitcoin, but here's why I think Bitcoin is a serious and dangerous issue:

When you look on social networks like X or Lens, you realize that a large portion of bitcoiners and bitcoin influencers are completely disconnected from reality.

They advocate for anarchy and are against the state and governments, but they clearly seem unaware of what a world without state or government would entail.

I see more and more anti-vaccine, flat earth , and climate change denial rhetoric dangerously gaining ground. Some critics of the dictatorship in Western states even go as far as valorizing and defending Putin, China, Trump, and other crazy dictators. You really have to be uneducated, unaware of reality, and misinformed to see dictatorships or potential dictatorships as dreams of freedom. Have we already forgotten Hitler, Pinochet, Stalin, and others?

Clearly, we're talking about people stuck in their echo chambers, trying to convince themselves, alternating between being convinced and refusing any other external ideas, especially any scientifically proven or explained facts. Spoiler alert: economics is also a science.

In summary, a significant portion of pro-bitcoin and pro-crypto individuals seem clearly closed-minded, unaware of reality, indoctrinated by their own dogma, and closed off to any other external ideas or thoughts. They are therefore similar to our central bank directors. They just don't believe in the same dogma but are equally problematic and dangerous. The world is not black or white, nor even gray; it is made up of multiple colors. And if you are convinced that the whole world should be red, you are as, if not more, problematic than what you criticize and fight against.

It's understandable to feel conflicted about being pro-bitcoin and defending the ideals it proposes, especially when history has shown us that the best of technologies, in the wrong hands, can become destructive. Atomic fission was not meant to be a weapon, the internet was not meant to fuel misinformation and radicalization, and bitcoin was not meant to promote ignorance.