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Whats political about using coinbase to buy and sell bitcoin?

• greenie_beans 5y ago
  crypto is political
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  • no_butterscotch 5y ago
    For you? Or for everyone? People say everything is political, that doesn't make it so.
    • greenie_beans 5y ago
      everybody is fighting for power. politics is power. decentralization is very much a fight for power.
  • throw_m239339 5y ago
    > crypto is political Crypto isn't partisan. It's not beholden to the democratic or the republican party. Saying "something is political" is meaningless.
    • greenie_beans 5y ago
      politics extends past the democrat vs republican system. "political" means power, whether it's a minority group fighting for power so they can have some basic human rights, or it's some crypto bros fighting for decentralization so they can have power.
  • philwelch 5y ago
    Is any technology inherently political, or do we make it political when we pick political fights over it? Did 7-Eleven become a political company when Bloomberg went and banned Big Gulps?
    • greenie_beans 5y ago
      no, i'm not suggesting that technology is inherently political. the ideal of decentralization by way of crypto is a fight for power, which is the essence of "political".