Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency...
by javert on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:42PM
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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
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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...
Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency...
by javert on Sunday March 01, 2015 @01:34PM
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Cypherpunk is not the same thing as libertarianism or anarchism. I'm well aware that bitcoin has cypherpunk origins.
Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency...
by oafitupa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:54AM
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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.
Re:Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency...
by javert on Sunday March 01, 2015 @11:25PM
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We don't know that Satoshi was a libertarian, or an anarco-capitalist. Chances are, he wasn't (isn't).