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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 offli

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.

javert 12y ago
I agree with everything except your last sentence. Don't associate bitcoin with libertarians and anarco-capitalists. It deserves better.
- leviself 12y ago
  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...
  - javert 12y ago
    Cypherpunk is not the same thing as libertarianism or anarchism. I'm well aware that bitcoin has cypherpunk origins.
- oafitupa 12y ago
  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.
  - javert 12y ago
    We don't know that Satoshi was a libertarian, or an anarco-capitalist. Chances are, he wasn't (isn't).
    - oafitupa 12y ago
      You don't have any evidence about that. And like I said, he expressed all kinds of libertarian ideas, so chances are he is.
      - javert 12y ago
        There is no such thing as a "libertarian ideas." Libertarianism is a specific movement, not a specific ideology.