No Ted Cruz, Bitcoin Isn't Anti-Left; bitcoin is apolitical
Riding on Canada’s “independence convoy” protests, Republican Senator Ted Cruz recently took to the stage to embrace bitcoin at a highly publicized CPAC event. In a generally pro-Republican campaign, Cruz rebuked his political opponents, ranging from Justin Trudeau and Elizabeth Warren to the Chinese Communist Party, for opposing bitcoin because of his desire to control people’s financial liberties and civil liberties. Of course, the story of the Canadian trucker played out smoothly. Cruz’s right wing , Opposition to the Freedom Convoy united around a common opposition to the Liberal Trudeau government’s vaccine mandate. It was also heavily associated with right-wing political figures such as Tamara Licht, a member of the far-right Maverick Party. Political pressure proved too much for many, even leading private crowdsourcing platform GoFundMe to cancel a fundraiser after it raised more than $10 million for truck drivers. bitcoin is apolitical The...