Comment: You wanted me to be honest.

What I described to you is EXACTLY how I'd feel if "friend" was making demands of me with such manipulative statements.

You could substitute the part about bitcoin with just about anything and this statement would still be a turnoff:

Failure to [fill in the blank] makes one either ignorantly, lazily or complicity a servant of the surveillance police state and tyranny and therefore [fill in the blank] makes an excellent litmus test for whether an individual or institution is a true liberty proponent.

I have no opinion about bitcoin. I do, however, have an opinion about the style of ~persuasion~ being used here, and I've given it to you. Take it for what it's worth.