Places like China and Russia and New York State are trying to stop Bitcoin in any way they can because they know what it is capable of doing to their money-monpoly scams. They see it's potential and they're terrified. They should be. Because it's over for them. The game is up, and they lost. Individual sovereignty won.
"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare — never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship."
-Eric Fromm, The Sane Society
he sound so happy and proud to be a libertarian