Politicians pandering the bitcoiners doesn’t make Bitcoin political
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Bitcoin is a natural physical-power-based resource control structure that strikes at the heart of how society will establish its pecking order. This is highly disruptive to existing power structures, especially nation states. So although bitcoin the system is perfectly neutral, the people who utilize it can exert a certain dominant political force of will that is ultimately bipartisan in nature.
A lot of people don’t seem to get this. We don’t call the internet “right winged” or “leftist” it encompasses every side of the aisle
They (the state) want it to be political because they (the state) do not want to separate money from state.
The state can participate in hashing and establish their place within the emerging dominance hierarchy, which is exactly what they are going to do. They won't be able to "print" currency anymore, but they can and will physically compete to control as much hash power as they can. This is how natural dominance hierarchies work in nature and its how it will work here.