Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency of the internet

Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by xacaxulu on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:03PM (#9125646)

Bloated governments are grasping at straws. Look at the US with FATCA, taxing it's citizens wherever they are. I prefer to keep socking away savings in my offline bitcoin account and then exchanging it for Euros when I'm back home. Just look at all the people who had 'safe' accounts in Cyprus, or in the US underwritten by FannieMae. Bitcoin is the Libertarian's / Anarcho-Capitalist's dream; true freedom from the whims of greedy governments.

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by javert on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:42PM (#9125711)

I agree with everything except your last sentence. Don't associate bitcoin with libertarians and anarco-capitalists. It deserves better.

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by leviself on Sunday March 01, 2015 @03:30AM (#9126447)

I'm assuming you are ok with an association with cypherpunks / crypto-anarchy, because one certainly exists even if newcomers would rather relegate these roots to history. Hal Finney was a cypherpunk and bitcoin wouldn't be possible without his RPOW system. Wei Dai, who was cited in the original bitcoin whitepaper, was also a cypherpunk, and praised Tim May's crypto-anarchist manifesto. The list goes on...

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by javert on Sunday March 01, 2015 @01:34PM (#9128288)

Cypherpunk is not the same thing as libertarianism or anarchism. I'm well aware that bitcoin has cypherpunk origins.

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by oafitupa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:54AM (#9126677)

Too bad that you don't like libertarianism, because Satoshi Nakamoto (you might have heard of him) expressed all kinds of libertarian and anarcho-capitalist ideas.

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by javert on Sunday March 01, 2015 @11:25PM (#9130325)

We don't know that Satoshi was a libertarian, or an anarco-capitalist. Chances are, he wasn't (isn't).

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by oafitupa on Monday March 02, 2015 @11:44AM (#9132733)

You don't have any evidence about that. And like I said, he expressed all kinds of libertarian ideas, so chances are he is.

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Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency... by javert on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:56PM (#9181870)

There is no such thing as a "libertarian ideas." Libertarianism is a specific movement, not a specific ideology.

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