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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Fear of Trust in Bitcoin

I think a lot of the ideology comes down to a fear of trust where people believe, I think that some people just generally speaking believe that people are good and trustworthy. Other people fundamentally believe that everyone is out to screw them over and you can't trust anybody. And I think that Bitcoiners tend to be that latter group of people. So they're very suspicious of centralized authority in government. Probably didn't like their parents. You end up with those types of people predicting the downfall of civilization and Bitcoin as the way that they will emerge as the kings of the new civilization.

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