cryptoleft

Dear Cryptoleft, I have a question for you:

From my experience and knowledge (in France & in the US), it seems to me that left wing aligned ppl are more often than not, anti-crypto. Oftentimes because it's seem as a way to scam people, and often associated with finance, which is traditionally despised by the left.

However, given the very nature of blockchains, being a decentralized and transparent alternative to our current information storage/communication system, which should 100% align with the leftwing standards, how come we're seeing so much dogmatism and lazyness to actually understand the technology, embrace it, and build leftwing aligned proposition? This really baffles me to be honest.

Is there a deeper reason as to why things are this way? Making crypto a partisan issue is really the worst outcome possible...

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I hear environment a lot from my lefty friends (I have a lot of Left sentiment but also a lot of sentiment from all kinds of perspectives), post merge Ethereum would do well to frame its outreach addressing this. Also, a lot of crypto focus has shifted to more libertarian economic ideals, ideas about how money should work, which is imo not really in the wheelhouse of a lot of left leaning folk, who are often empathy driven.