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[-] sobchak@programming.dev 26 points 6 days ago

Lemmy is quite left-leaning, and the impetus behind creating Bitcoin was right-wing Austrian school economics. Now, it's being pushed by literal fascists.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

I can't say I've ever seen fascists pushing Bitcoins, but then again I don't frequent those spaces. I struggle to see how they are ideologically similar though. Doesn't seem like a very authoritarian concept

And can we really say we know what brought about the publication of the bitcoin whitepaper?

[-] sobchak@programming.dev 17 points 6 days ago

Trump, Bukele, Milei, Orban, Thiel, Musk, etc. It's the "Dark Enlightenment" and "Network State" type of fascists that want to replace democratic government with stuff like corporate-controlled city-states, and crazy shit like that. They see it as a means to starve the government so they can run their own corporation-like governments.

The message in the genesis block alludes to the ideology (as that kind of stuff was a major talking point for right-wingers back then), though I guess it's not definitive proof. The early community was definitely Austrian-school adjacent right-wingers though.

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 12 points 6 days ago

I don't know any crypto bros who aren't also MAGA/libertarian/fascist

[-] TheButter_ItSeeps@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Many MAGA/libertarian/fascists love ice cream. Does that mean ice cream is bad? We should be able to make up our own minds about things instead of turning everything into a partisan issue. A broken clock is right twice a day.

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Crypto is stupid for entirely different reasons that I've enumerated in other threads in this post. I'm just observing a correlation I've noticed here which directly runs counter to another statement.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They aren’t pushing pro-ice cream laws, this is a disingenuous take.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

The Republicans in US congress just forced through a bunch of pro-crypto crap, if you’re looking for undeniable proof.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I think we can. Have you not heard of this phrase before?

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Satoshi Nakamoto put it in the zeroth block of the Bitcoin blockchain.

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