Bitcoin Songsheet Fiat Politics – Bitcoin Magazine

This is an opinion editorial by Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur and programmer with over 20 years of experience.

Link to audio read of the article here.

I hate politics.

It’s a weird zero-sum status game of perception where the winners get to make the rules. Everything is judged on intentions and nothing on results. It offends me as an engineer because it’s really a way of saying that reality doesn’t matter and that majority opinion can trump facts. It’s a collective delusion about how important our opinions are. When discussing politics everyone is the smug, arrogant, smart aleck teen who thinks he knows everything.