Programming is reducing entropy, so is cleaning your room.  When you make things less random and more structured you decrease entropy.  Over time the laws of thermodynamics kick your butt and entropy is increased again.  Think of what happens if you didn't clean your room for 200 yrs.  The block chain is a very specific decrease in entropy (ordered bunch of bits) that BitCoin clients agree upon.

To be honest I don't think it's that important of a statement or particularly profound.

Thanks for the great response.  We had Bruce on Thinking Liberty last night.  You can find the podcast here: http://thinkingliberty.net/podpress_trac/web/590/0/Thinking_Liberty_-_2011-01-11.mp3  At the last minute we scheduled a guest host who was a self-described old-school cypher punk.  Bruce got asked some very tough questions and he fielded them really well.  All in all I'd say it was pretty positive for bitcoin.  Bruce comes in about 30 minutes into the show and his interview last about a half hour.  There's some more talk about cryptoanarchy following the interview if you're interested.  We're currently booking a guest for mid February to talk about a specific project that uses BitCoin.  Thanks again to Bruce for laying the groundwork.  Keep up the good work everybody.

Thanks for the info!  I'll contact him.

Hello,

I'm looking for someone who would be willing to do a phone interview about how BitCoin functions and why people should use it.  The interview would take place at 8:20PM EST on any Tuesday after 1/3/11.  It would be part of a live podcast called Thinking Liberty.  We could call you, you could call us, or we can connect via Skype for the interview.  If anyone is interested, fire an email to contact@thinkingliberty.net.  Thanks,

-bosco