Vitalik: Oppose making political voting choices based on whether or not to support crypto

BlockBeats news, on July 18, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article expressing his opposition to making political voting choices based on "whether to support encryption." Supporting a [politician] should be because of their entire platform and views, not just because they support cryptocurrency.

Vitalik wrote in the article that the cryptocurrency field is increasingly active in politics, and supports them almost entirely based on whether political parties and candidates are willing to be tolerant and friendly to "cryptocurrency." But decisions made in this way are likely to go against the values that originally brought you into the crypto field. In the crypto field, people tend to focus too much on the centrality of "money" and the freedom to hold and spend money (also "tokens"). Bitcoin is seen as an extension of the spirit of liberalism in the field of Internet payments.

Vitalik believes that freedom is important, and decentralized networks are good at protecting freedom. Money is an important area where such networks can be applied-but it is only one of several important areas. And being friendly to cryptocurrency now does not mean that it will still be friendly to cryptocurrency five years later.