Why Bitcoin is Not an “-ism”
Bitcoin is a neutral protocol that exists outside every economic and political framework humanity has built. It carries no ideology, no party platform, and no central authority. Therefore, every attempt to place Bitcoin inside an existing mental model, whether capitalist, socialist, libertarian, or anarchist, says more about the framework doing the categorising than about the protocol itself. It is the classification puzzle that Daniella Liberati sits with in "Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity," and it may be one of the reasons so many of us struggle to place Bitcoin at all.