The bitcoin people caught rubbing elbows with JE were morally ambivalent 90's Silicon Valley objectivists and minarchists who read books like "Snow Crash", and thought "Wow that sounds super fun!" They see themselves as the main characters of a cyberpunk LARP, when they are just little Temu Elon Musks.
If the traditional price action narratives of bitcoin didn't hold, then why are the Bitcoiners still clinging to the old narratives about hodling? Every bear market, you could be the final exit liquidity before the market picks some other niche internet enclave of retards to take for a rocket trip.
The last time bitcoin was at 65k, I bought a house with it. I'm just saying, this is still not an unreasonable price for grug brain old schoolers to be selling at. I don't have to pit pat wiffy wang wong some lines on a chart to know that.
Very little of a moral purge is actually about morality. It's mostly a bunch of individuals with a grudge who want a scalp and a vacuum of power. That's why apologizing never works, and in some cases, turns up the heat.
"How could all these people associate with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 child prostitution conviction?"
1. Epstein's sentence was a joke. Even when he was imprisoned, his cell was often left unlocked. He was back on the streets on work release after 3.5 months of an 18 month sentence. Pretty clear that everything was arranged to be treated like NBD.
2. Epstein was a billionaire and a known benefactor of many initiatives. His status among the elite barely suffered, and among those who overlapped his interests and sought funding, he was known to be generous.
3. Money + Systemic legal system failures = major incentive to not ask a lot of questions. It's not notable that Epstein continued to network extensively. It would actually be notable if ANYONE stood up and said "Hey isn't this guy the one who got pinched for child prostitution?"
Do I need to cite Milgram to explain how this works psychologically?