Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land’s fucked up ideas precded dogecoin, so it’s really hard for me to be like “oh those things weren’t originally connected.”

Yes, yes they were originally connected. Bitcoin itself wasn’t originally part of their ethos, but the crypto scene quickly became part of it, certainly before dogecoin itself was released. They wanted to use it to “crowdfund” their own country.

The same year dogecoin was released, Yarvin was releasing Urbit.

It was never just “funny” crypto. There has been a darkness brewing behind it all the entire fucking time.