Progressives Misunderstand Bitcoin – Bitcoin Magazine

Logan Bolinger is an attorney and author of a free weekly newsletter on the intersection of Bitcoin, macroeconomics, geopolitics, and law.

As Bitcoin continues to infiltrate American politics and policy, debates about which political party is more naturally aligned with the Orange ethos have spread and intensified. The growing number of self-described progressives entering the space has catalyzed some heated discussions about how Bitcoin fits into the ideology of the political left. Is Bitcoin Progressive? Isn’t that basically progressive? Is there anything else? To understand why these may not even be the right questions and why many (but not all) progressives seem to struggle with Bitcoin, we should delineate some of the partisanship claims and identifiers that tend to limit our thinking. To the point, it is high time we distinguished capital “P” progressivism from lowercase “p” progressivism.

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