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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.