It's weird that all you can know about someone is their moral foundations profile and you can predict their political ideology or vice versa to some, you know, non-zero degree.
NEW REPORT: ARE BITCOINERS CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? WHAT'S MORAL MAXIMALISM? | Troy Cross
host Walker America sits down with Troy Cross, professor of philosophy and co-founder of the Nakamoto Project, to unpack the latest comprehensive survey on Bitcoin adoption, sentiment, and politics in the U.S. This is the most in-depth data set to date on how Americans really think about Bitcoin.
- 🇺🇸 Walker’s eye-opening meetings with congressional staffers and why most don’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and Trump Coin
- 💥 Senator Dick Durbin’s anti-Bitcoin rant—and how it reveals deep generational and ideological gaps
- 📊 Key findings from Troy’s new Bitcoin survey: 48 million Americans have exposure to Bitcoin
- 📉 Why Bitcoin sentiment is declining on the left , despite institutional and political wins
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1 It's weird that all you can know about someone is their moral foundations profile and you can predict their political ideology or vice versa to some, you know, non-zero degree.
2 And we wanted to know last year when we asked these questions, like, where are Bitcoiners?
3 Are they more like conservatives in the way they their ultimate core values or are they more like liberals?
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And we wanted to know last year when we asked these questions, like, where are Bitcoiners?
Are they more like conservatives in the way they their ultimate core values or are they more like liberals?
And we found last year and this year, the answer was like neither.
Bitcoiners have their own distinctive moral foundations profile, which I called it moral maximalism, because they just seem to be higher almost everywhere.
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host Walker America sits down with Troy Cross, professor of philosophy and co-founder of the Nakamoto Project, to unpack the latest comprehensive survey on Bitcoin adoption, sentiment, and politics in the U.S. This is the most in-depth data set to date on how Americans really think about Bitcoin.
🔍 Topics Covered:
🇺🇸 Walker’s eye-opening meetings with congressional staffers and why most don’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and Trump Coin
💥 Senator Dick Durbin’s anti-Bitcoin rant—and how it reveals deep generational and ideological gaps
📊 Key findings from Troy’s new Bitcoin survey: 48 million Americans have exposure to Bitcoin
📉 Why Bitcoin sentiment is declining on the left , despite institutional and political wins
🧠 “Bitcoiners Are Just People Who Know About Bitcoin” — how knowledge, not identity, drives adoption
🧭 The rise of “ moral maximalism ” among Bitcoiners — a unique moral profile unlike left or right
