2018-7-27 09:52 |
The more than 1,200 crypto community respondents broke down to 8 percent anarcho-capitalists, 24 percent libertarians, 21 percent conservatives, 9 percent centrists, 27 percent liberals, 9 percent socialists and 3 percent nihilists.
Two factors could explain why these results deviate from commonly-held conceptions: time and crypto partisanship by coin (or coin tribalism).
Time:
Anecdotally, libertarians made up the overwhelming majority of early crypto advocates and thus the archetype stuck with the general movement.
The right-leaning pioneers of pre-2017 crypto are faced with leftist migrants to their tech territory.
As adoption grows, this trend will most likely continue and decrease the representation of right-wingers in crypto, especially of those at the far end.