If I run a business that people will depend on me and tying that business to Bitcoin’s success in financial terms automatically puts in you a very real time window. I bet it must be a relief for him because it is a step toward the mass adoption. Especially in UK they are in a much more slippery slope in terms of regulation and everything. So USA taking this step at this point in time might help him.

But coming to your point that he is a statist. At the end of the day he is not a complete and hardcore anarchist. As far as I’m aware he never claimed go be also in the environment of UK it is much more difficult to be one than a person living in USA. And to be honest I am not myself huge fan of the idea living without the idea of sone type/shape or form of government. I live in the Middle East and I see what happens to the people when the governments fail and how the violent and chaotic it can be. But if it means anything to you I don’t see myself as a statist as it is a more complex matter than 1 or 0 like many things in life. For example I like the idea of constitution. It is like the whitepaper of Bitcoin. It gives rules. Defining property rights. Protecting life of people. I’m not saying current systems are good or working as they should be (obviously they don’t) but I always feel like pointing fingers to nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx is just #friendlyfire in the #bitcoin space. 

I would love the idea of agreeing on the base layer that Bitcoin is a good thing that gives you allies that you wouldn’t think that you would stand together with. If you disagree with something on a higher level still make it okay somehow because you know he stands for bitcoin.