I was actually moving along pretty far to the right when I first heard of bitcoin around March or April. I didn't know anything about it other than they were on the computer and you could use them to order cheap drugs if you were so inclined. I remember going to buy and research bitcoin when on my Facebook feed the Mises Institute had post on it. This is what drove me off bitcoins and had me completely forget about it instead getting caught up in an awful daily grind at a job I hated.
The FB post by Mises was proclaiming what sages they were for predicting bitcoins downfall. They linked to the article posted yesterday which I read that gives a very poor and inaccurate theoretical application to Carl Menger's Theory of Money.
http://mises.org/daily/6401/ I then also missed the Canadian Austrian Scholars Seminar which I had been looking forward to since the beginning of the year because, again they somehow couldn't give me time off at work. Cody Wilson, a huge influence in my personal development since I first saw an hour long talk he did on philosophy and 3D printing guns 1 year ago on the /r/anarchocapitalism was supposed to be there and I'm sure promoting Dark Wallet and bitcoin yet it was something I missed.
The point of my little rant is so far the capabilities and freedom of bitcoin is not being communicated. If I would of known all about bitcoin from the beginning I would of much sooner be at the stage where I think of everything in bitcoin and will be converting all my paychecks into bitcoin.
What started top really get my attention was this quick transfers and low fees since I had been using Paypal for my Steam trades which was turning out to be expensive for little transfers. Also getting paid in Canadian I have high incentive to move that while it falls in value to USD from almost on par earlier this year and bank of Canada predicting under 90 cents by 2015 as well as the Canadian government's wild policy on inflation.
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