Opinion – The Progressive Bitcoiner

VIDEO: Lyn Alden Responds to Ben McKenzie’s Bitcoin Claims on The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

5atoshiNakamoto — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:45:06 +0000

I’d venture it’s a weak assumption that many of us Progressive Bitcoiners may indeed also be longtime fans of Jon Stewart. So as a longtime Bitcoiner myself as well, it’s incredibly frustrating to see misinformed takes like that of Ben McKenzie recently on “The Weekly Show,” misleading the very people we here most often try to bring along on the nuance of Bitcoin vs. the scam that is cRyPTo.

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An Open Message to the Organizations Opposing Senate Crypto Legislation

Elvis Gwaro — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:13:54 +0000

I am writing because we share the same core goals: to fight corruption, to protect those vulnerable to exploitation, and to build a financial system that is fair and just, not rigged for the powerful. Your letter asks for laws to protect people from financial harm. I am writing from Kenya to ask you to please get your facts straight. The mistakes in your letter are causing real harm to people…

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What Would St. Jude Think About Bitcoin?

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:20:27 +0000

Before she became a hacker, a cypherpunk, or the figure later known as “St. Jude,” Judith Milhon was a civil rights activist in the segregated American South. That experience exposed her to injustice in its most visible forms—explicit discrimination, enforced segregation, and open coercion—but also to the quieter mechanisms that sustained it. Power, she learned, does not operate only through laws…

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Quantum Computing and Bitcoin: Separating Real Risk from Manufactured Panic

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:32:39 +0000

Over the years, various commentators have speculated about the potential impact that quantum computing may have on Bitcoin. These stories can often be dramatic and attention-grabbing, but they rarely reflect the state of actual quantum research, the nature of Bitcoin’s cryptography, or the incentives and practical capabilities of the entities building quantum technologies.

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Fix the Money, Heal the System

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:56:03 +0000

Read the Full Paper Across Canada and around the world, progressive political parties and movements are at a defining crossroads. Growing wealth gaps, housing unaffordability, food insecurity, the erosion of pensions and retirement savings, and many other signs of social distress are not isolated policy challenges—they are symptoms of a deeper systemic disorder: a…

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Bitcoin over Gold: An Ethical, Ideological, and Strategic Case

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:44:30 +0000

I hold and spend Bitcoin, not gold. This choice is not about speculation or short-term financial returns, although Bitcoin does appreciate significantly in value over time, making it a powerful savings tool. It is more so about my commitment to the liberal democratic principles that underpin a free and open society. In an era of growing authoritarianism and geopolitical instability…

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Why Bitcoin Was Created and Why It Matters to Progressives

Trey Walsh — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous person (or group of people) named Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” This marked the birth of Bitcoin — not just as a technology, but as a movement for financial independence, transparency, and freedom. Satoshi’s core insight was that our monetary system relies too…

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Central Bank Digital Currencies Clash with Progressive Values

Nicholas Anthony — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:13 +0000

Across the political spectrum, there is growing recognition that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be a force for good by expanding economic freedom and challenging entrenched systems. But conversations around central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, have not made the same progress. Efforts to slow or block the creation of a CBDC have received little support among congressional…

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Anti-Bitcoin Activism is Cool, But At What Cost to the Rest of the World?

Win Ko Ko Aung — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:03:58 +0000

“You got your Green Card under the Biden administration, so stop doing this Bitcoin s*it. It’s for Trump supporters. You’re forgetting where you came from.” Those words stung me during the recent election. An attack – boxing my immigrant identity into a political corner I didn’t choose. As someone who grew up in Burma, I always carry a skepticism of systems that fail the vulnerable.

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Bitcoin ≠ Crypto: Why it Matters

Andrew Lonero — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:06:19 +0000

The sad reality of the bitcoin ecosystem right now is that most normal people do not understand the distinction between bitcoin and other digital assets, and how and why they are very different things. Bitcoin is based on cryptography and blockchain technology, and many crypto assets are too, but the term “crypto” lumps together a chaotic mix of technologies, tokens, platforms, and ideologies.

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A Bitcoiner Tries TradFi — First Year Portfolio Reflection

Andrew Lonero — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:00:07 +0000

It’s been a year since I made the decision to start managing some of my retirement savings myself, rather than delegating that role to someone else. So… it’s time for a check-in. How am I doing? My family knows I’m very into bitcoin, and my parents keep warning me: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, you should diversify.” Fair enough. But diversify into what, exactly? If you believe the…

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You Don’t Need to Go to a Bitcoin Conference

Bryon Bothun — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:01:48 +0000

My wife and I did not go to the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. But we did go to Vegas. We went to Vegas because the Bitcoin conference was there, and because we knew we could see many of our Bitcoin friends and acquaintances. But we weren’t there to go to the conference. In fact, we were there to intentionally NOT go to the conference, which we anticipated would be an ostentatious…

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