I've heard a lot of bitcoiners claim bitcoin isn't political. I think they are full of shit, bitcoin is 100% political.
There's a lot of great thinkers out there like Nick Szabo who have thought about this. Anytime there is an order of operations governing social behavior, that is a government. And the code is law within it's own closed system. Bitcoin has arbitrary parameters, it has a government, and it has consensus.
You can broadcast your node against consensus and live in your own reality. I can claim ownership over the United States and elect myself as president. This can all be true in my own head....but social consensus is a thing. Nobody else recognizes this as fact. Taiwan claims mainland china. The UN, the EU and the US don't recognize Taiwan's claim as true so it's just moot. The point is, the rules in which the longest chain operates by is a real thing and it matters. Not only are the rules of the longest bitcoin chain political, but the process of coming to consensus itself is also political. Anyone from the older days knows how much of a political fight we had over the block size, and we'll probably have more fights to come like BIP 119.
But that's just how bitcoin is political internally. Externally, bitcoin is also political. Replacing the USD fiat system is political. El Salvador's adoption is political. Smart contracts on liquid are political.
Usage of Bitcoin can also be political. Donating to wikileaks, or truckers, or Ukrainian army. Evading sanctions, evading inflationary currency, evading censorship on digital Yuan.
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