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Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by lukeschlather on Saturday October 24, 2015 @01:59AM (#10442621)
This is the essential problem with libertarianism. You can't personally be in control of money, it has to be granted by some sort of central authority. Even Bitcoin, which ostensibly is decentralized, still has central planning in the form of developing the software and the rules around how the blockchain functions. Bitcoin is designed to have very lightweight central planning, but it's still there.
Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion by eru on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:27AM (#10442895)
What about gold?

(I don't like gold as a currency, but it doesn't seem to require even the modicum of central planning that bitcoin does.)