With hindsight, arguably two of the most significant paragraphs written in recent history.

Who'd have thought that a clever fix to sustain a P2P payment network would fire-up an internet army of crack-pot libertarians imposing a mad monetary scheme to take-over the world?! 😬
IMO in order to understand what's going on in the world, it's important to understand that 'BitGold' as a philosophy predates Bitcoin & is deeply embedded in libertarian ideology. Nick Szabo's acolytes 'captured' Bitcoin after Satoshi created it. 2/n
This ideology has nothing to do with the 'casual payments' in a trustless system that Satoshi solved, but was about accumulating & hiding [virtual] wealth, in a brutal world where you trust no-one, & live for your own self-interest. 3/n
This can be read in different ways, but it may well be argued that the objective in this libertarian world-view is to undermine governments, & governance (i.e, democracy). Full-throttle Rothbardian madness (& many *do* see it this way, as a *good* thing). 4/n
It's a word-view which an increasing number subscribe to, but there needs to be an open discussion & understanding as whether governments should really be allowing the amount of energy being 'burned' to sustain & spread & worldview which is fundamentally anti-government 5/n
It's a word-view which an increasing number subscribe to, but there needs to be an open discussion & understanding as whether governments should really be allowing the amount of energy being 'burned' to sustain & spread & worldview which is fundamentally anti-government 5/n
It's a word-view which an increasing number subscribe to, but there needs to be an open discussion & understanding as whether governments should really be allowing the amount of energy being 'burned' to sustain & spread & worldview which is fundamentally anti-government 5/n
The world doesn't need energy hungry speculative 'assets' like 'digital gold' or BitGold. The world doesn't need a private 'settlement layer': CBDCs can do that.

The P2P, distributed cloud information economy should thrive within democracy, the law & regulations. [End]
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