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by boon 13y ago
The bitcoin community needs to come together and prove that legitimate self-regulation and sufficient transparency can work. We need to shed the Mt. Gox's by choice, and choose firms that are willing to undergo third party audits (like
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by boon 13y ago
Has anyone here purchased one of these? If so, any insights on quality and comfort? They sure have some great prices.
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by boon 13y ago
+1 purely for self-recognized Clinton-style grammar argument.
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by boon 13y ago
No one is forgetting history. I think those of us pointing out that Bitcoin enables perhaps less regulation is because it provides new technologies for self-regulating and self-organizing. n of m wallets, self-executing contracts, autonomou
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by boon 13y ago
I don't disagree that in a post-regulation world, people are going to have to be more cautious with their monies from a security and risk perspective. That's a good thing. But a lack of regulation still doesn't make this Bitc
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by boon 13y ago
When are we going to see a change in the rhetoric? This isn't Bitcoin's disaster, it's wholly Mt. Gox's.
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by boon 13y ago
Like this comment, right? :)
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by boon 13y ago
Fair enough.
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by boon 13y ago
Wait. How do I get down-voted for saying this a fascinating idea? Does that even imply that I support it? Lame.
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by boon 13y ago
What do you expect in a perfect libertarian free market system??? Oh. Wait. Sorry, I had to after reading all the bitcoin hate in other threads.
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by boon 13y ago
Fascinating idea.
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by boon 13y ago
Traditional paradigms of banking might have to change when each person can be his or her own bank.
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by boon 13y ago
I guess in practice I don't disagree with you, if your definition of government is "anything that can fully oppress you". Sure, our government is an organization that has the ability to take away our self-claimed rights. The
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by boon 13y ago
At this point I'm almost forced to call you intellectually dishonest! Just finish off that tid-bit of quote you pulled, and you'll find they specify exactly where they come from — a Creator. Whether or not you believe in a Cre
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by boon 13y ago
What do you see as the new hotness that has replaced them?
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by boon 13y ago
You're giving me a history lesson, again. You really should stop playing teacher. It sort of makes you come across as an ass. But I really want to believe that's not what you're going for, so I'll try my best to just rem
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by boon 13y ago
1. It's not completely unregulated. 2. If you think a highly regulated system works better, just google "jon corzine mf global".
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by boon 13y ago
How could the right to vote possibly be a natural right? Ignoring your second part. (But I'm guessing you'll focus on this rather than my first sentence.)
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by boon 13y ago
YOU'RE the one challenging what I'm saying. Leave whenever you want.
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by boon 13y ago
I'm just challenging your absolutist statement. I don't have to come up with a third solution. That was never my objective. My point is that it's not wrong to think about it, and the act of going down that theoretical path do
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by boon 13y ago
I'll just make a statement that if "Preventing people from voting is authoritarian." then the US system of government at various points would have to be considered authoritarian.
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by boon 13y ago
Glad we could find common ground here. What about my distinction in your definition of government? You seemed so adamant about the fact that a private owner and our current government are the same, effectively. I thought I gave a reasonable
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by boon 13y ago
My quote was within the context of a free market. Democracies are anathema to anarcho-capitalist societies, because NO ONE should be able to vote to force you to do something you choose not to. Again, this is the pure governance/politi
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by boon 13y ago
If you're afraid of where the question goes, don't answer.
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by boon 13y ago
Would you consider the US at any time in its history to be authoritarian?
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by boon 13y ago
"The freedom to vote." That isn't a natural right. That is born out of the system of governance that we've decided is best. There is no natural right to vote — not in the same way we have a natural right to speech or def
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by boon 13y ago
I appreciate you haggling over the definition of government. The difference between a government and a private entity in this situation is that the government can force you to pay taxes to pay for this river management whether you interact
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by boon 13y ago
That's fine. I don't care about convincing you. I care about convincing people who have the same perspective on individual freedom that I do that are reading this thread. I guess if there's no convincing you, then your open-m
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by boon 13y ago
It's only a paradox if you believe in the first place that dietary animal fat is bad for you.
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by boon 13y ago
The completely anarcho-capitalist solution is that someone owns the river. If you want to dump into that river, then you have to deal with the owner; if you want to take from the river, then you have to deal with the owner. The owner would

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