When Evangelical Christians got Reagan elected in 1980, it didn't end well for them. Bitcoiners supporting Trump can learn from this historic partisan capture.
Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, suffers immense corruption and oppressive censorship. Freedom tech like Nostr and Bitcoin offer ways around it.
Technological capability, on its own, is not enough to create Bitcoin privacy. Unless users and society actively defend and demand privacy, it will die. From "The Privacy Issue".
Bitcoin is built on the principles of free association, and market incentives pushing people into a consensus arising out of that free association between participants. People seem to have forgotten that.
As artificial intelligence grows, so do attempts to control it. But, if we can differentiate the real risks from the fake risks, this technology could be used to encourage diversity of thought and ideas.