A recent study indicates that U.S. cryptocurrency enthusiasts resonate more with conservative moral values than liberal ones. While revealing a clear link, the findings are correlational and primarily focus on American crypto advocates. ...
Must not have spent much time in crypto spaces. I would say they trend along the lines of Joe Rogan fans, but they are definitely more " bro libertarian " then leftist if anything.
There are some leftists who are into crypto currencies, but by and large most of the crypto space is dominated by anti game stop bois,investors, business moguls, drug dealers and small business owners.
Not exactly a huge overlap with leftist ideals there.
Back in the day when I was briefly into bitcoin (for the mining, which was still possible back then using GPUs) the bitcoin.org forums were mostly populated by americans who were sticking it to ‘the fed’ and had a deep distrust of authority. Some of them were seriously unhinged… I didn’t hang around there for long - only so much crazy I can cope with.
When I saw the people in silly costumes storming the whitehouse on TV that’s exactly the kind of person I can imagine was posting on the bitcoin forums.
Crypto bros are likely overwhelmingly libertarian since a lot of crypto bro mentality gels with that ideology, particularly that it makes currency decentralized and more controlled by private entities. Cryptocurrencies as a whole will have various aspects that may appeal to other groups, however. Like yeah, it’d be great if we could reduce the power that banks have over us, but cryptocurrency often devolves into whoever has the most coins controls everything, critically with proof of stake systems. I’m convinced that bitcoin is only as valued now because rich people (who got their riches outside of bitcoin) have controlled it and are playing games with it.
This is surprising to me tbh. I always assumed crypto bros were left leaning.
Must not have spent much time in crypto spaces. I would say they trend along the lines of Joe Rogan fans, but they are definitely more " bro libertarian " then leftist if anything.
There are some leftists who are into crypto currencies, but by and large most of the crypto space is dominated by anti game stop bois,investors, business moguls, drug dealers and small business owners.
Not exactly a huge overlap with leftist ideals there.
Back in the day when I was briefly into bitcoin (for the mining, which was still possible back then using GPUs) the bitcoin.org forums were mostly populated by americans who were sticking it to ‘the fed’ and had a deep distrust of authority. Some of them were seriously unhinged… I didn’t hang around there for long - only so much crazy I can cope with.
When I saw the people in silly costumes storming the whitehouse on TV that’s exactly the kind of person I can imagine was posting on the bitcoin forums.
Crypto bros are likely overwhelmingly libertarian since a lot of crypto bro mentality gels with that ideology, particularly that it makes currency decentralized and more controlled by private entities. Cryptocurrencies as a whole will have various aspects that may appeal to other groups, however. Like yeah, it’d be great if we could reduce the power that banks have over us, but cryptocurrency often devolves into whoever has the most coins controls everything, critically with proof of stake systems. I’m convinced that bitcoin is only as valued now because rich people (who got their riches outside of bitcoin) have controlled it and are playing games with it.
The only people currently using crypto do so in order to get rich.
Don’t see many left leaning people worshipping money and throwing everyone they can under the bus in order to make capital.