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Steve Sanduski, Business Consultant shared: I listened to a recent progressive bitcoiner’s spaces. They’ve taken some heat lately and been called all the usual toxic stuff. Here’s why we should all embrace progressives adopting bitcoin.
Do82Nic, promoting Bitcoin adopting through an equity lens was the host and she made it clear early on, “there’s bitcoin and there’s bitcoiners.” Further, she said no progressive Bitcoiners wants to change the bitcoin protocol. Progressives are attracted to bitcoin for exactly what it is and they have NO desire to change it.”
Bitcoiners, on the other hand, are a very diverse group and come to bitcoin for a myriad of reasons. I think of it this way–bitcoin is like a mirror. When you look into bitcoin, it reflects back what you want to see. This is a feature, not a bug.
If you’re libertarian, you see separating money from state, immune to seizure, censorship resistance, permissionless, decentralized, transparent, and freedom of the sovereign individual.
If you’re a follower of Austrian Economics, you see all the above plus sound money with the 21m cap, savings technology, and an incentive toward low time preference. If you’re an investor, you see digital gold, NGU, and portfolio diversification
If you’re a progressive, you see a way for marginalized communities to build generational wealth, to store wealth away from abusive partners, to gain money freedom that can’t be taken away, and to use money that requires nobody’s permission to accumulate, store, and spend.
The reality of bitcoin is it has multiple entry points that attract a widely diverse group of people who hold different views on political ideology, social issues, and economic issues.
The beauty of bitcoin is that all these diverse people agree on one thing—bitcoin is perfect as is; nobody needs to change its protocol to fit their worldview or values system.
Bitcoin should win the Nobel Peace Prize because its design and neutrality acts as an attraction field to bring together widely diverse people whose needs are being met by a common monetary standard that no party can—or wants—to change.
Now, some people get triggered when they hear the word “progressive” and they get bigly triggered when it’s followed by “Bitcoiner.” Some of the speakers in this spaces were not comfortable with the label “progressive” either. Why?
Because labels can put you into boxes and no label will perfectly fit any individual. But using the word “progressive” in this context is like a signalling device. It’s a way to let others who hold “progressive” values know that there’s others like you in bitcoin.
You might think, “bitcoin doesn’t care who you are.” True, it doesn’t but other bitcoiners do care. Many progressive bitcoiners have been absolutely slammed on Twitter and been told they should stay away from bitcoin. That’s ridiculous.
Bitcoin is for everybody and it’s in everybody’s best interest to see wide adoption by ALL people as long as they champion bitcoin for what it is, not what they want it to change to to meet their specific values system.
It’s key for progressives to share examples of how bitcoin dovetails with progressive values because to attract someone to bitcoin, you have to speak in words and stories that are meaningful to them.
And there should be space for that free of toxic abuse, particularly against women.
My hope is that the broader bitcoin community embraces progressive bitcoiners and understands that while you may disagree on values, we all agree on one thing—bitcoin. And as long as we all stay laser-focused on bitcoin and our common humanity, we will all thrive.
