It doesn't matter how much well-intentioned bitcoiners repeat that "bitcoin is apolitical", trying not to scare away certain highly politicized and partisan people. Bitcoin was political in origin, it is political today, and it will always be political - unless someone somehow changes the code. To be specific, Bitcoin is libertarian, both socially and economically. Get over it already, and stop pretending socialists and other varieties of totalitarians have a worldview compatible with it.
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I agree Bitcoin is political but I don’t think the division lies where you’re suggesting it lies. I think the division lies between statist and non-statist ideologies.
Just my two sats.
Non-statist is just a way of saying "libertarian". I prefer and personally use the word "liberal", really. Which particular flavor of liberalism, I think there is ample room to accommodate bitcoiners, from minarchism to market anarchism. Individuals in free association.
What doesn't fit regardless, are socialism, cronycapitalism, fascism, or any other form of statism, which is the same as antiliberalism or authoritarianism, or collectivism.
#Bitcoin undermines govts & all forms of political authority. Economic freedom is inherently libertarian.
Isn't incompatible with socialism. Stocks or things like a crypto coin are a form of communism, because it has a community shared value, and the more people contribute to it the better everyone in the community is. What differs is it's voluntary and not mandatory, at least from other forms of communism we actually call communism/socialism
It is.
in trading stating their political ideology for the term bitcoiner, they only limit their individual reach, instead appear extremely insular. Which is a practice in collectivism.
I'm not a libertarian, yet I don't find it incompatible.
Maybe you are a libertarian, and you just don't like the label.
While I like Bitcoin and dislike unnaturally inflating the money supply, I also think taxes on the biggest corporations and richest 1% should go way up, and essential services and utilities like healthcare and electricity should be taxpayer funded, owned/managed by the state.
So think I'm disqualified from being called Libertarian.
Then it sounds like you don't totally get the full implications of an economy built around bitcoin, and how it is incompatible with all those policies. We haven't even started, so you will be able to keep this contradictory discourse going for a while. If we ever get there though, you will either accept the reality of bitcoin, or end up denouncing it.
Yeah I guess we'll all find out together.