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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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paulo 2y ago

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.

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hh 2y ago

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.