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Hah wow, this makes me doubt the person really understands bitcoin. The puzzle is a mathematical thing, AFAIK nobody’s poring over mysterious message drops from Satoshi like people do for Q. The article doesn’t mention Ethereum or heck even ESG concerns. I’d buy the argument that it’s a cult much like Communism is a cult, an idea taken to the extreme that’d cause lot of pain but the way it is written is sloppy.

>Though its lack of a single leading figure and its amorphous online footprint marks it out from traditional cults, some say the cryptocurrency movement bears a striking resemblance to another progeny of the digital age: the QAnon super-conspiracy.

> “Both have doctrine passed down by a mysterious unknown founder, puzzle-solving, and internet meme culture and lots of predictions about politics/economics that are completely unfalsifiable,” says Diehl. “They’re both rooted in this ideology that claims to oppose a common enemy: corruption and untrustworthy intermediaries, and both see the internet as the way to finally eradicate those problems in some great apocalyptic event.”