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172 sats \ 9 replies \ @cjasonmaier OP 4 Jun \ parent \ on: I'm Jason Maier, author of A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin, AMA! AMA
Yes, it actually is a bit harder now. This was one of the worries I had about Bitcoiners courting Trump so aggressively. This is a huge turn off for a lot of moderate and left people who are skeptical of Bitcoin in the first place. If there assumption is that Bitcoin is a scam before they start learning, having Trump involved won't help that assumption.
But the GOOD news is that Trump isn't really acting like a Bitcoiner. He's using crypto to enrich himself. So if Democrats play this right, there is an opportunity to distinguish themselves from Trump on Bitcoin. I'm not optimistic, but it is possible.
You spurred me to write up some thoughts I've been having about the stupidity of allowing ourselves to be reactionaries. I've fallen into this trap before and I really try to not make that mistake. People tell us what something is and we often just accept that instead of trying to understand for ourselves. I hope you are right about this outcome as its pretty obvious Trump is just pandering and scamming people. I hope this happens for the sake of the people.
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i don't think that is going to happen but one can be hopeful that the Dem would embrace a Bitcoin not crypto stance in response to Trump's nonsense. I do think all the crypto nonsense is making people realize how dumb "crypto" is and that is good for Bitcoin in the long term.
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I hope you are right about people seeing the crypto nonsense. I think that might be true of the memecoin part but I don't think its true of crypto in general. I think most people don't like crypto at all and just lump bitcoin in with everything else. Memecoins are a part of that. But in the crypto space I think memecoins are being discredited by Trump's nonsense. Just a feeling I have though.
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You are probably right that most people in general have a negative attitude towards crypto and lump bitcoin in with it but I do think some folks are coming around. I don't see much interest growing interest in crypto like the previous bull markets. I think that's a good thing.
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Yeah, 100%. A couple weeks ago it hit me that a ton of people just are gonna miss the boat. I was asking myself what is going to take for people on the street to take notice again?
On the macro at least I think the plebs are gonna miss bitcoin. The people that are open to it had their chance and decided. Now the institutions/elites are aping in. By the time it becomes "accepted" to be in on bitcoin much of the front running will be over.
Not to be negative because even if bitcoin's spending power doesn't improve it will not be inflated so its still gonna help people no matter when they start adopting bitcoin. But its just a shame. You can't force a horse to drink. They have to decide. And people are no different. They just aren't thirsty yet.
Absolutely. But in the meantime there are a lot of low information people (voters) that conflate Bitcoin and Crypto and Trump isn't helping on that front either. It takes education and being patient with people who are just learning.