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I really do not understand the hate felt for BTC there, ZH-ers tend to like gold after all. And BTC fits right in with the mostly libertarian zeitgeist there. In the comments below the article, you can read what the fans and detractors have to say. You can even see (if you're a ZH member) how many up arrows vs. downs I got (first comment, my moniker there is "38BWD22").
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Unfortunately... Bitcoiners today don't really fit the narrative of the "libertarian" mindset that was once the initial drive for starting up the Bitcoin project. I wasn't around during then, but from what I've read and seen that was posted in the past by Satoshi and others was to try and create something pure and completely
decentralized that doesn't have any government influence... Now people are welcoming the governments and allowing them to intervene with open arms because it
might raise the prices/adoption rates. People who come into bitcoin now are in it for the speculatory "make a quick buck" scheme now... not for any greater purpose other than that.