Why are there so many leftists within crypto? As Solana says in his bankless episode, crypto disintermediates and reduces the power of the state. I get why libertarians and rightists like crypto, but why leftists? Leftists should want state power to enact leftist policy goals if they care about leftist outcomes.

This depends on what “crypto” is eg I think Bitcoin maxis are more right wing. 

Leftism: I think it's a lot more like people are "center left" with a massive focus on globalization ie equality if access regardless of race, gender etc. So the culture of "leftism" in crypto is social.

I thibj this is also why the neoliberal clique accepts crypto: they have a globalization focus that's more indexed on "social equality" than "wealth equality". Think Matt Levine, Noah Smith, Joe Weisenthal.