Why I Would Not Vote For A Bitcoin Party
The ideals which Bitcoin was founded upon are in direct opposition to those which bind political parties and ideologies.If an election one day comes where an “orange party” is on the ballot, they will not have my vote. The beauty of Bitcoin is that it does not need a formal political party in order to enact change. It will continue to consume monetary energy on its way to becoming the global standard regardless of whether laws are passed to accelerate that adoption. In fact, its ideals reject the entire centralized premise that a political party represents. Bitcoin grows not through....
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