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The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

3 pointsby freedsoftwareover 2 years ago

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aww_dangover 2 years ago
Some laughable assertions in this piece. I&#x27;ll limit myself to some basics.<p>The Base58 encoding used for cryptocurrency addresses does not contain any special characters.<p>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.<p>If we are working with the principle of guilt by association, I&#x27;d like to take this space to accuse statists of being responsible for genocide and war.<p>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!<p>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.