Bitcoin Forum

Hello all,

I am starting a fundraiser for Stefan Molyneux / Freedomain Radio.

If you enjoy his commentary/videos/philosophy you can donate by sending your coins here:

19vhXH8her5oBsZGdnRy4AU7cJoJRMuk8u

(This is a mybitcoin account that I will hand over to him in 30 days).

Cheers!
The Madhatter

I'm not going to send them now, but if he acknowledges that he's interested I'm in for 500BTC.

This thread is relevant to my interests  :)

I have just contacted Stefan to tell him about the fundraiser. I'll post again once I get a reply. :)

I figure if I don't hear from him I'll auction the coins publicly and have the winner drop PayPal into his account. :)

That's acceptable to me, but I would love it so much if he had a bitcoin address, I'd probably compulsively drop coins in it after every podcast (which is really really often if anyone doesn't know).

Oh sure. I'm trying to get him to directly adopt Bitcoin; it is my preference as well.

That would be a great thing.

On a side note slightly related to Freedomain Radio Im helping get the Keene Activist Center's new website started and have setup a mybitcoin account for them in the hope they will post a public donation bitcoin button on there.

I have a response from Stefan.

My latest email to him:


His response to my first email:


My original email:

Nice! :D *shaking your hand* Great work!

Hmm.. Stefan hasn't responded to my 2nd email yet. I'll email him again in a couple of days. He's probably busy.

I've also contacted him about Bitcoin, but he seems to be pretty busy.

I also don't think he really cares that much about money because he made a fortune as a software entrepreneur before becoming a full-time philosopher.

But I think he would like the *ideas* behind Bitcoin. Maybe ask Satoshi to do an interview with him?

I know he made some money, but he definitely wants to raise money from listeners, he mentions it in every third podcast. It makes complete sense to me, he is doing/has done an amazing amount of labor.

Okay, I emailed Stefan and PM'd Satoshi. I think it would be really neat if Stefan could produce a youtube video that contains an interview with Satoshi. Even if it is just a video that has Stefan reading an email of questions answered by Satoshi it would help Bitcoin a lot. :)

Hey I made a thread for that very thing lol.

Bump!

If you've listened to or read any of Stefan's books that's worth at least 50 cents. :D :D :D :D

More correspondence below:

Stefan:


The Madhatter:

Hello all,

It has been 30 days. I am emailing the mybitcoin username/password to Stefan now.

Thanks to all who donated!
The Madhatter

No more emails from him? Weird that he wouldn't get interested.

I will donate generously as soon as I know that he will actually use Bitcoin. I think he will be very interested in Bitcoin once he understands in detail how it works.

That is correct. He might just be really busy.

More correspondence:


Reply:

Did he say he will interviewing Satoshi, the mystery man who invented bitcoin?

I had sent a message to Satoshi and Stefan regarding a radio/youtube interview.

Neither one of them ever replied.

Disappointing. Thanks for trying.

Maybe they're just incredibly busy?

Was it made clear that "Bitcoins are the #1 most important development in the fight for freedom in this century" to get his attention?

I facebooked him about BTCs a couple months ago and got no response, but I didn't phrase it like the above (rather, it was a long-winded explaination of BTCs with a request for an interview with Satoshi, so naturally he didn't want to do something that he didn't understand is my guess...)

He'll know you are wrong since raising children peacefully is the number one important development in the fight for freedom. Bitcoin can have #2 spot though.

I'd still put seasteading before in this priority list.  ;D

BrightAnarchist was referring to "developments" rather than "ideas". People can use bitcoin today, but seasteading isn't yet practical for ordinary people.

I agree with FreeMoney about raising children peacefully being number one priority though.

Maybe we need to make bitcoin more visible within the liberty community? I have been submitting bitcoin updates to the free talk live website whenever news such as the eff accepting donations comes out.

You don't want child abusers on your oversized boat/undersized island  :P

Or did you just mean in front of bitcoin?

I vote them up, lol.

What other sites should we hit?

I'm with BrightAnarchist in putting Bitcoin as the single most important development. You can raise children peacefully and lovingly but they can still become the moral police, religious fundamentalists, hardcore nationalists, etc. Humans are weak by nature and will cling to any gods they can find, no matter how good their childhoods were. Also, profits from this strategy would take generations to be felt. As for seasteading, it only takes for the US to get together with Europe and China and decide that they need to liberate us from liberty for it to be all over.

On the other hand, Bitcoin has the potential to destroy every single government on Earth if implemented on a massive scale, and never give a chance for them to return. There would be no more asking people nicely to give you liberty, you would be able to just take it. I'd go as far as call that scenario the next stage of human civilization.

In other words, an exists that nobody in the world can close. They might thought that they could close the door, but it is moot.


Well, maybe. We don't know if bitcoin succeed or will not succeed. One thing for certain, the power that may be will have to give at some point.

Children raised without force don't grow up to force others to follow their morals. There is no one human nature. Humans are changeable and adaptable. It will take generations.

   I recently got an ad on project wonderful and you can see it on nhunderground http://nhunderground.com/forum/ (http://nhunderground.com/forum/). There are a lot of sites where you can get one free because there are no other bidders. What I am doing is searching project wonderful for the keyword "liberty" and bidding on adspace. :) Its not directly bitcoin but it might ease people into it. 

I think we should advertise bitcoin directly.

I would donate bitcoins to freedomainradio...

Anyone else who would donate bitcoins, feel free to say so at this thread on their forum:

http://freedomainradio.com/BOARD/forums/p/29276/225107.aspx

I asked Stefan today on his show what his opinion of BitCoins was and he said he didn't know enough about it to share his opinion yet.

Damn this guy is way too slow in adopting new technology. It is quite irritating that he is unable to see the potential of Bitcoin.

I know right, especially since he used to run a software development company..

Stefan hasn't discovered the freedom of Linux yet either. Give him time and he'll eventually come around to both.

 ;)