Single-Issue Bitcoin Voters Or A Singular Bitcoin Apolitical Force
A Porter's respectful partial disagreement with another (unrelated) Porter on the idea of Bitcoin single-issue voters.This article is a respectful part agreement but more disagreement with Dennis Porter’s article, “Why Bitcoin Represents The Ultimate Single-Issue Voting Bloc.”Bitcoin Is ApoliticalTo start out, Bitcoin is apolitical. However, many people who own Bitcoin do vote in elections, and everyone lives in countries where the government can have an effect on Bitcoin, its ecosystem and its regulation.One definition of apolitical is “having no interest in or association with politics.”....
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