{"id":4483,"date":"2025-08-06T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-bitcoiners-case-for-progressives-why-we-were-right-to-appraoch-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:18:59","slug":"a-bitcoiners-case-for-progressives-why-we-were-right-to-appraoch-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-bitcoiners-case-for-progressives-why-we-were-right-to-appraoch-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bitcoiner\u2019s Case for Progressives: Why We Were Right to Appraoch Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

A Bitcoiner\u2019s Case for Progressives: Why We Were Right to Appraoch Trump<\/a><\/p>\n

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In last week\u2019s BM Big Read<\/a> \u2014 \u201cWhen Bitcoin Picks a Political Side<\/a>\u201d \u2014 progressive Bitcoiner Jason Maier told an impassioned, in-depth story of political choice. Bitcoiners shouldn\u2019t<\/em> have sided with Trump in the run-up to the American election last year, he argued, since, a couple of years from now, it will set us back; anything Bitcoiners might gain by the political alliance<\/a> with President Trump<\/a> will be undone by ostracizing the other half of the political spectrum: progressives and wider, left-wing Democratic voters.<\/p>\n

Because of Trump\u2019s explicit connection to the Bitcoin industry, and David Bailey in particular, writes Maier, \u201cIt is already more difficult for me to talk with friends, family and coworkers about Bitcoin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He admits that it was never easy to talk about Bitcoin with progressives<\/a>, but at least before 2024, the \u201cconversation was <\/em>about Bitcoin; now it\u2019s about Trump.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maier claims that he has empathy for those who favor not voting against<\/em> their self-interests, such as Bitcoiners during the ongoing assault against bitcoin and the surrounding industry was going in the first half of the 2020s. But then he unfairly chastises them for not adhering to low time preference foundational ideals.<\/p>\n

I believe Maier and other progressives are oblivious to how much of a boot this industry had on its neck \u2014 in no small part because of their own blinding political bias.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ultimately, this<\/em> is where Jason departs from hyperbitcoinization:<\/p>\n

it\u2019s easy to empathize with the feeling that the Bitcoin community needed to form a political alliance with a charismatic celebrity-turned-politician running for president in order to stem the assault on Bitcoiners\u2019 vision for America\u2019s future. Unfortunately, the urgency that some in the community felt<\/a> to create that political alliance betrayed the very antifragility and low time preference that are foundational elements of the Bitcoin movement.<\/p>\n

This is an infantile and idealist take. <\/p>\n

During operation choke point 2.0<\/a>, we were debanked and had to scramble to pay our own staff with a new banking provider; Lightning service providers departed the country, which again we suffered from as IBEX left and suddenly we had to figure out new solutions for accepting bitcoin for purchases; and there was a constant hovering specter of audits and outward regulatory aggression toward advancing bitcoin adoption.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitcoiners, inside and outside the industry, should have tempered their frustrations with all of that, just<\/em> so that \u2014 maybe \u2014 we can be more successful in grassroots adoption in a decade or so\u2026?<\/p>\n

In other words: We should<\/em> take one for the Bitcoin industry team<\/em> just because you need more time (and money?) to convince the people absolutely least likely to ever grasp Bitcoin\u2026?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The root of Maier\u2019s argument seems to be a self-interested focus on advancing bitcoin for his<\/em> preferred political group. It\u2019s self-serving. As the author of \u201cA Progressive\u2019s Case for Bitcoin<\/a>,\u201d Maier has been on this crusade for a while \u2014 with very little to show for it. The progressives have failed massively in persuading their representatives to support bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is it really the case that we, actively fielding off political attacks and regulatory crackdowns as we were during the Biden administration, should suffer demise simply because allying with a polarizing political figure looks and feels bad to those on the left?<\/p>\n

Why should predominantly politically agnostic Bitcoiners wait indefinitely under a \u201clow time preference\u201d pretense for the progressives of the world to accomplish what for all intents and purposes are empty dreams?<\/p>\n

By any measurement, the liberal\/progressive movement for Bitcoin advocacy has been an absolute joke: <\/p>\n

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why should predominantly politically agnostic bitcoiners wait indefinitely idly under a “low time preference” pretense for the Jason Maier’s of the world to accomplish objectively no results? the liberal movement for bitcoin advocacy has been an absolute joke by any measurement.<\/p>\n

\u2014 di (@di_btc) August 3, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

This article is a <\/em>Take<\/em><\/a>. Opinions expressed are entirely the author\u2019s and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

This post A Bitcoiner\u2019s Case for Progressives: Why We Were Right to Appraoch Trump<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Di Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine A Bitcoiner\u2019s Case for Progressives: Why We Were Right to Appraoch Trump In last week\u2019s BM Big Read \u2014 \u201cWhen Bitcoin Picks a Political Side\u201d \u2014 progressive Bitcoiner Jason Maier told an impassioned, in-depth story of political choice. Bitcoiners shouldn\u2019t have sided with Trump in the run-up to the American election last year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}