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Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards (lemmy.world)
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[–] -5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year 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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