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by hazov 4830 days ago
"which, for many of its libertarian-anarchist advocates, is the whole idea"

The politics the community built around is for me the only reason why it sucks right now, the idea is interesting and it can certainly have some use. Selling all that I have.

TL;DR: Well, the link speaks for itself: http://imgur.com/r/cringepics/gkLJswu

EDIT: Ultimately what I hate about it is that the almost anywhere you go do discuss it there's this tribal mentality of believers vs. deniers. What about those guys in 2009 that thought it was a good idea to work as a currency and does not care about libertarianism/keynesianism talk?

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I think of bitcoin the same way I think of the music of Led Zeppelin: I don't let the fans stand in the way of my appreciation of a good product.
Fail.

“It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though.”

Satoshi Nakamoto 14 Nov 2008