If you actually read this article in full, it seems quite inane to me.
>Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that tracks Weev’s Bitcoin wallet, every transaction coming out of it, along with those of some other neo-Nazis.
It doesn't seem important that someone you dislike, nazi or not, uses a currency. Many of the world's worst criminals and killers use the US dollar. It doesn't matter.
>that “the world will ultimately have a single currency,” which to me is a conspiratorial belief.
It doesn't have to be Bitcoin. I don't think anyone important seriously thinks Bitcoin in its current state can be a world currency. But you might be surprised what happens in the next few decades or 100 years from now as far as a world currency goes.
>There is at least a hint there of “illegitimate/parasitic profit takers interfering with an otherwise-honest transaction,” which is a classic form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
At this point I don't think this article is worth taking seriously. I'm not sure how you can read lines like this that imply rent-seeking is an "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" and continue on thinking this article is worth your time. Even if other points of the article are better than this, I still expect better content on HN
> But Nazis represented national socialism which is on the far left side.
No, it's not. National socialism had very little in common with left-wing socialism (even early on, and even less by the time the Nazi party came to power) and was basically right-wing authoritarian nationalism.
There has been a recent effort at historical revisionism by the American Right, in particular, to recast Nazism (and fascism in the general sense) as left-wing movements, but there is no substance behind this propaganda effort.
ve55|7 years ago
>Now you have actual Nazi groups being in favor of Bitcoin. Weev, one of the biggest Nazi leaders worldwide is into it. There's a great Twitter account that tracks Weev’s Bitcoin wallet, every transaction coming out of it, along with those of some other neo-Nazis.
It doesn't seem important that someone you dislike, nazi or not, uses a currency. Many of the world's worst criminals and killers use the US dollar. It doesn't matter.
>that “the world will ultimately have a single currency,” which to me is a conspiratorial belief.
It doesn't have to be Bitcoin. I don't think anyone important seriously thinks Bitcoin in its current state can be a world currency. But you might be surprised what happens in the next few decades or 100 years from now as far as a world currency goes.
>There is at least a hint there of “illegitimate/parasitic profit takers interfering with an otherwise-honest transaction,” which is a classic form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
At this point I don't think this article is worth taking seriously. I'm not sure how you can read lines like this that imply rent-seeking is an "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" and continue on thinking this article is worth your time. Even if other points of the article are better than this, I still expect better content on HN
njarboe|7 years ago
merinowool|7 years ago
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dragonwriter|7 years ago
No, it's not. National socialism had very little in common with left-wing socialism (even early on, and even less by the time the Nazi party came to power) and was basically right-wing authoritarian nationalism.
There has been a recent effort at historical revisionism by the American Right, in particular, to recast Nazism (and fascism in the general sense) as left-wing movements, but there is no substance behind this propaganda effort.