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Title: 2013-04-17 Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins
Post by: gweedo on April 17, 2013, 07:21:15 PM
http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/17/why-libertarians-and-gold-hoarders-love-bitcoins/

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What kind of people use Bitcoins, the digital currency designed by cryptographers to be untraceable? Web entrepreneurs? Open-source evangelists? Anti-corporate hackers? Well, it turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the average Bitcoin user is a libertarian. A 32-year-old libertarian male to be precise.


Title: Re: 2013-04-17 Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins
Post by: grondilu on April 17, 2013, 07:38:04 PM
A 32-year-old libertarian male to be precise.

I'm impressed.  That's exactly the age I had when I learned about bitcoin.


Title: Re: 2013-04-17 Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins
Post by: teknomunk on April 17, 2013, 08:11:53 PM
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And we will have lost one of [sic] greatest advances of the modern age: power over our own currenciies.

I was under the impression that we (the people) don't have control over our currencies, the bankers do, primarily through the Federal Reserve bank and their supporters in government.

If anything, Bitcoin will restore the people's control over the currency and put everybody, including the bankers and governments, on a level playing field. And that is what bankers and goverments hate about Bitcoin: they don't get a massive advantage over the rest of us.


Title: Re: 2013-04-17 Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins
Post by: ECore on April 18, 2013, 01:07:25 AM
The average paperbug is a 72 year old democratblican.