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I wonder what it looks like if you weigh by holdings
They spelled "sovereign" wrong above the 30%
such a good sign of the times if polling was done soundly
genius.
Correction: Bitcoiners in the US.
In Argentina bitcoiners are libertarians, anarchist and some right wing
Actually very unexpected. I'm impressed.
That's largely true in America, too. It's just that libertarians and anarchists don't know how to respond to this prompt.
We out here
Interesting how this contradicts my extensive IRL Bitcoin experience where everyone is right wing.
where are the cryptoanarchist?
This is literally unbelievable
I know, it make sense. But there are good % of gay bitcoiner is the US too.
I think it’s spelled anarchist
As a "Bitcoin Policy Institute", this is kind of the exact outcome you would hope for such a study.
I'd like to know more how it was conducted. Did they ask 100 bitcoiners on bluesky, 100 on nostr and 100 at a libertarian convention or something?
No. Those are NOT bitcoiners. Are statists.
Why does the Bitcoin policy institute sound like a liberal organization? Like, they found all 35 of the liberal bitcoiners. 😂
This thread talks about a report with similar findings (might actually be the same report) that has more details about methods. 
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Troy Cross (@thetrocro) on X
15/n We found that not to be the case. Bitcoin owners are politically just like the rest of America: mostly moderate, with smaller conservative and...
Indeed very interesting. The study is from @Troy Cross and is based on a survey from last year. Too bad he didn't post it here on nostr as he did on Twitter:
Link to the survey:
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6644db90e58a1fbeb1c70ddc/669f69702fa1b4b3bf09dbac_TNP%20Q3%202024%20Report%20(Digital).pdf
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1/n I'm really proud of this report on bitcoin ownership.
Our survey of 3,538 adults in the US found bitcoin ownership:
-covers the full spectrum ...
Small print says this is from polling in the United States (only)
Getting really tired of US Americans representing themselves as the whole world (as the title at the top of the chart suggests, through omission)
More specifically, tired of US American bitcoiners pushing their insular politics onto Bitcoin
They probably define bitcoiners as those who have a coinbase accoint. (They are not bitcoiners)
Contradicts mine where all of them are anti-state. This chart doesn't even have that option.
All of gay bitcoiners I know are libertarians.
It's the way it should be. Politics is like the polar opposite of what Bitcoin strives to achieve.
the people want the ☮️ money
I somehow read that as "bitcoiners are those that have a coinbase UTXO", probably because you wrote coinbase instead of Coinbase. ;)
Phew, glad they finally found me! Been around since the GPU mining days. Didn't realize I was such a rare bird. Guess that makes me one of the fabled 35 liberals they managed to track down. Hahaha!
You are a valued member of the community. 🙏
25% liberal+ ??? 🤔 🧐
Bitcoin is for everyone
Conservative side are definitely way more loud on social. Is this self identifying? Or did the survey place them on the spectrum according to views on issues.
The BTC Party , proof of work politics
How can they "know" that ?
Most of bitcoiners are anonymous, how can they know their political affiliation, by a phone survey ?
not alowed on one dimensional fake spectrum 😆
Bitcoin is for enemies fr fr
It's the Tuvok meme irl:
"Are you two friends?"
"No!"
better would be to ask open-ended question and sort them into categories after
Interesting the skew of right and left. More radical left than right. They skew the opposite way as they trend to neutral
It’s a dumb chart, whichever way you slice it.
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you should have a lightning wallet on nostr
It’d be interesting to see a visualization on other political views diagram which isn’t just a left / right spectrum.
Political spectrum - Wikipedia
Interesting how 95% of the political spectrum is considered neutral.
We literally got anarchists, fascists, communists, every different group that calls themselves socialist or libertarian etc.
All considered neutral, while conservatism and liberalism which are just different variants of capitalism are somehow considered the two sides.
Ohhh that makes sense now.
Why they think that liberals and conservatives are the opposite ends of the political spectrum when they are essentially the same thing
They are considered "neutral" along with the monarchists communists fascists etc. All considered neutral for some reason
Outside of social media every single person I know that uses Bitcoin are full blown leftists.
Anarchists mostly, plenty of libertarians as well. But yeah the only right wingers interested in Bitcoin seem to be Americans.
Neutral is a bit generic. Because that would represent having a foot in both camps. I 100% don't believe in absolutes, so 'individual' is better.
What about a no government option?