American Conservative Pundit Ben Shapiro Endorses Bitcoin Hinting at Libertarian Holy Grail

  

The highly popular right-wing commentator devoted a 15-minute Youtube video to inform his followers of the merits and potential that bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies, in general, as an anti-government monetary system. The grassroots embracement of bitcoin is the first of its kind in the alt-right American universe.

Crypto Adoption is Taking a Surprising Right Turn in the American Political Landscape

On March 7, 2021, Ben Shapiro, a prominent American conservative political pundit, released to his Youtube channel a video titled “Bitcoin: The Future of Finance or Fool’s Gold?”. In three days the video accumulated more than 800,000 views, suppressing Aatonop’s flagship video, “Introduction to Bitcoin: what is bitcoin and why does it matter?” that took four years to get to his current 733,000 views.

This is the first time Shapiro discusses bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, or finance in general.

The 15 minute Shapiro video is vastly different from Andreas Antonopoulos’s. While Antonopoulos speaks to the tech crowd and focuses on the blockchain innovation that enables bitcoin, Shapiro explains the crypto world in the most basic terms, as if he knows that his viewers are encountering the concept of fiat-vs-crypto for the first time.

The fact that Shapiro chose to introduce cryptocurrencies and bitcoin to his 2.87 million subscribers is an eye-widening moment in crypto acceptance and adoption in the U.S. in its most folksy form. Shapiro isn’t perceived like Elon Musk or Mark Cuban, billionaire public figures in the tech arena that are followed by the in-crypto crowd. Shapiro is considered a man of the people, a political pundit that is followed by the alt-right crowd – republican, conservative, middle-of-America working-class people.

For readers of news.Bitcoin.com, it might be hard to imagine a world devoid of crypto. But this world does exist, and it’s far larger than the crypto world. Shapiro’s attempt to break the barrier between these two worlds is indicative of the massive inroads bitcoin has made in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, on its path to be fully embraced by the mainstream.