Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"
And all three teams are waaay too nationalist: they view things from the perspective of their own country, and ignore or exploit everyone else. Even when the teams are internationalist in theory, their specific ways of interpreting their values make them unpalatable outside of a small part of the world.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
1) a deep dislike of the "woke" US left, exemplified by the New York Times, 2) a combination of strong discomfort with the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarianism with an understanding of why the CCP often justifiably fears the United States, and3) an appreciation of the love of freedom of the US right (exemplified by Bitcoin maximalists)... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
With respect, I found @ErikVoorhees' keynote to be jejune, anti-democratic, and disingenuous. It may be effective as a rallying cry for libertarians, but as a strategic framework for the global adoption of crypto, it is so divorced from reality as to be worthy of ignoring.
The speech's strongest points centered around... See more
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