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The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

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3 points by freedsoftware 3 years ago · 1 comment

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aww_dang 3 years ago

Some laughable assertions in this piece. I'll limit myself to some basics.

The Base58 encoding used for cryptocurrency addresses does not contain any special characters.

Rothbard was Jewish. Calling Rothbard or Rothbardians antisemites is a difficult stretch. It seems that no criticism of libertarian ideals or markets is complete without an accusation of racism.

If we are working with the principle of guilt by association, I'd like to take this space to accuse statists of being responsible for genocide and war.

He asserts that the gold standard was bad because the gov. can go off the standard by changing the standard? Speed limits are similarly troublesome. People can violate them!

Of course there are more clownish hijinx to be found within this interview, but I think that should be illustrative of the level of discourse.

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