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210 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 4 Jun \ on: I'm Jason Maier, author of A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin, AMA! AMA

Hi Jason, glad to have you here! I posted these two questions before #996908

  1. In your debate with David Bailey re: Trump last summer, you said something like "Bitcoiners associating themselves with Trump makes my job as a progressive — explaining bitcoin to progressives — that much harder."
    How do you feel that has turned out? Harder to orange-pill progressives now than 1 or 2 years ago?
  2. In my salty-ish Bitcoin Magazine review of your book from two years ago, I said that progressivism is incompatible with Bitcoin; that a progressive without big government and money printing is merely a libertarian with a strong social ethos.
    Have you moved (or rather has bitcoin moved you) at all in your understanding/opinion/ideology in the last few years?

Thanks!

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188 sats \ 0 replies \ @cjasonmaier OP 4 Jun
  1. I think all of the worries I expressed during my discussion with David Bailey have panned out 100%. We see Bitcoin and MAGA completely intertwined and regular folks less able to differentiate between Bitcoin and Crypto. Many people seem less willing to engage with me because the assume I must support Trump. So, yes David Bailey aggressively courting Trump has made wider adoption more difficult.
  2. My wife really hated your review of my book. I'm not sure Bitcoin has moved me much on the progressive vs. Libertarian with a strong social ethos. I am still proud to call myself a progressive and try to engage with people about the pro-social aspects of Bitcoin. I will always hold that there is a role for government in our society and am willing to accept that bitcoin can help make that government more transparent, effective and responsive.
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