Bitcoin becomes a flag in this sense, as the encoding of technology's values: internationalist, capitalist, decentralized.
That’s because it's a demilitarized zone where one party cannot deprive the other of their contributions.
Bitcoin serves a similar role. All can profit from it, none can corrupt it.
- Land v Cloud
- State v Network
- Centralized v Decentralized
- Nationalists/Socialists v International Capitalists
- Hamilton v Satoshi
- MMT v BTC
Right now, the economic & social incentives for this group force demonetization, deplatforming, and censorship.
But over the long term they favor monetizable, international, uncensorable systems.