> They are also extremely anti-authority

Don't say it isn't so!? The community founded on circumventing existing financial structures are anti-authority? Next you're gonna tell me anarchists don't like individual leaders, or that socialists care about healthcare.

Source: I suppose also "made it out" although it wasn't hard, I left my job, like any other industry. Worth knowing as well that the cryptocurrency ecosystem isn't nearly as "internally" aligned as some people want you to believe, there is a large range in weirdness in the ecosystem, not just what parent above shared.

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ceejayoz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The community founded on circumventing existing financial structures are anti-authority?

But that's the thing; they aren't. They just want to be the authority.

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cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ethereum in particular has some history with that. A long time ago they espoused this principle called "code is law", and then one time the code for something called "The DAO" did something they didn't like, so they overrode the code. To this day the Ethereum consensus rules specify that a certain hardcoded transaction ID should not do what it literally says it does.

	▲	TZubiri 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The transition from PoW to PoS is another example, espoused the open ideals of Bitcoin mining, right up until the moment they had gathered sufficient power and members, at which time they closed the gates of ascension behind them.

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skeeter2020 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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glitchc 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Next you're gonna tell me anarchists don't like individual leaders, or that socialists care about healthcare.

There's an irony embedded in both positions. Everyone cares about government, anarchists care about overthrowing the existing government in order to replace it with their own version. Similarly, everyone cares about healthcare, socialists care about other people paying for their healthcare.