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.

privacy for the individual, transparency for the state

is privacy a more left than right value?

Also isn’t it privacy from the state? So transparency and privacy at odds?

(sry def giving you a handwavey answer)

nah privacy is def more right-coded

but the lefties i know in crypto see opportunity for crypto to accelerate and optimize their leftist ambitions. a lot of problems with state services come down to misallocated resources, transparency of crypto could improve quality of spending. 

re: privacy from whom -- its privacy from the state and general public. systems like zcash show how mixed public/private blockchains could work

Devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow. Global head of Macro at West Ham Capital