Trump: Web3 culture · 9 Jan 2026

Well. In 2024 Large Parts of Crypto X Traded Principles for Authoritarian Power and Lies.

This is exactly why the reaction of large parts of crypto X to Donald Trump is not just hypocritical, but structurally revealing.

The same average crypto user who never understood blockchain fundamentals, who entered through charts instead of principles, and who mistakes confidence for competence, also redefined sovereignty to mean “whoever promises me protection or upside”.

Sovereignty was never about limiting power in his mind. It was about aligning with power when it feels profitable.

Financial illiteracy research explains this pattern well. Low literacy correlates with overconfidence, preference for simple narratives, and attraction to strong figures who promise control in complex systems.

That dynamic does not stop at markets. It carries directly into politics. When you do not understand systems, you can't research truth, you are not able to detect lies and propaganda.... you outsource judgment to personalities.

In crypto, that is influencers. In politics, that is strongmen.

Supporting Trump in the name of sovereignty exposes that contradiction brutally.

You cannot claim to oppose arbitrary authority while cheering for authoritarian state force when it targets your perceived enemies or aligns with your bags.

You cannot claim decentralisation while celebrating centralised power exercised without restraint. That is simply selective principle abandonment.

X rewards the same behavior in politics that it rewards in crypto.
Certainty over truth.
Aggression over nuance.
Identity over coherence.

The crypto degen who follows every dream seller is the same actor who supports any political figure willing to project dominance.

The pattern is identical. Different arena. Same incentives.

Crypto was meant to reduce reliance on trust in powerful actors.

What happened instead is that many replaced trustless systems with blind faith. Not in protocols, but in people, in influencers, in presidents, in billionaires.

A reckoning is necessary, not because people voted a certain way, but because they claimed values they clearly do not hold.

If sovereignty only matters when it pumps your worldview, then it was just branding.

Crypto needs intellectual honesty.

Without financial literacy, ethical consistency, and a basic understanding of power, the word sovereignty becomes empty noise.

And empty noise is exactly what crypto X has learned to monetise best.

Every fucking single day.

And you know what. I am going to say something now that will make many people furious.

Crypto as a technology, its origins, and the atmosphere it was born into are the complete opposite of what MAGA aligned crypto followers claim to believe in today.

Crypto did not start as a culture of strongmen, flags, enemies, idiot KOLs or dominance.

It started as a reaction against concentrated power, opaque institutions, captured systems, and arbitrary authority.

It was intellectually curious, future oriented, transparent, and open by design. Equal rules for everyone. No special access. No personalities above the protocol. Holy shit, i miss it.

If you genuinely believe in authoritarian politics while calling it sovereignty, then you are not defending crypto values. You are contradicting them. At a fundamental level, you are in the wrong place.

Say thank you to Elon Musk for helping turn this platform into the inverse of what crypto once stood for. A place where visibility beats truth. Where aggression beats reason. Where identity beats coherence. Where shouting replaces thinking.

What was once a space for experimentation, open debate, and system level thinking has been reshaped into an attention market that rewards certainty, outrage, and loyalty to figures rather than ideas. That shift did not just damage discourse. It hollowed out meaning.

Crypto was never meant to be tribal. It was meant to be neutral. It was never meant to worship individuals. It was meant to remove the need to trust them. It was never meant to be exclusionary. It was meant to apply the same rules to everyone.