if you are a fan of conspiracy theories...

[niko]

Don't take this too seriously, but... All the trouble started when Gavin gave that talk in front of CIA, PayPal, and the Fed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.msg251755#msg251755

[vokain]

xpost

Warning, this will exceed the intellectual capacity of most readers here. This is intended for the high IQ audience of Eric's blog.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355212.msg5457696#msg5457696



I voted "most of them". I agree with ESR's comments:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5238&cpage=1#comment-424645

>Out of curiosity, why do you believe this ideology worthy of a lengthy series? Nothing against it, I’m just wondering what the trigger was.

Because they have a flavorful mix of dangerous truth-telling and utter bogosity going on.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5238&cpage=1#comment-424636

...Furthermore, if it were actually true, the DE would be entirely a noisome fever-swamp of bad ideas, rather than just rotten in spots.

[Elwar]

Don't take this too seriously, but... All the trouble started when Gavin gave that talk in front of CIA, PayPal, and the Fed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.msg251755#msg251755

All the trouble? Like the price shooting up over $1000?