> techno-libertarian crypto-currency advocates inhabit an entirely alternative reality. I really don't understand how people keep parroting stuff like this. By

> techno-libertarian crypto-currency advocates inhabit an entirely alternative reality. I really don't understand how people keep parroting stuff like this. By any metric, Bitcoin has been a resounding success and has completely discredited any of its original detractors. Despite this, people still go around saying "Haha, Bitcoin, what a silly idea. It will never work.". It already has worked! If anything, people like you (no personal insult intended, I'm simply addressing your comment) seem to inhabit some alternate reality where Bitcoin isn't tremendously valuable and there isn't a booming economy (with white, black, and grey markets) build around Bitcoin.