What if a Country go back to Gold (bitcoin) standard?

[twiifm]

That is naive.  You cant just say "oh you dont want liberty?" That's a strawman argument. Of course everyone wants liberty.  Marx wanted liberty,  Keynes wanted liberty.

If liberty is so blurry concept, the liberty of rothbard is the freedom to choose without stepping on someone else property. This is very specific definition, not a blurry one.

We already have that.

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[Nicolas Dorier]

If it were the case I would not debate.
I suggest you just try to sell one cheeseburger on your doorstep without breaking a law. I am waiting.

If you never tried to build a business and secure your income from tax payers, then sure you are in pony land. (Either that or your business is protected from competitor by the state)

[twiifm]

If it were the case I would not debate.
I suggest you just try to sell one cheeseburger on your doorstep without breaking a law. I am waiting.

If you never tried to build a business and secure your income from tax payers, then sure you are in pony land. (Either that or your business is protected from competitor by the state)

Ive had a business for 18 years.  No problems here.  And a lot of business sell cheeseburgers.  Where is your problem exactly?

[Nicolas Dorier]

If it were the case I would not debate.
I suggest you just try to sell one cheeseburger on your doorstep without breaking a law. I am waiting.

If you never tried to build a business and secure your income from tax payers, then sure you are in pony land. (Either that or your business is protected from competitor by the state)

Ive had a business for 18 years.  No problems here.  And a lot of business sell cheeseburgers.  Where is your problem exactly?

Because you can't do that with licence of government and paying them fees up front.
If you can't do business on the doorstep of your own house, then don't talk about any freedom to choose and non aggression.

I know that lot of business sell cheeseburger, but it is ridiculously complicated and impossible to do it in your own house legally.
This is the tip of the iceberg of liberty broken.

If you made the kind of business that can survive thanks to his customer, and not with special privilege, licence, and subsidies protecting your from competition, then kudo.
You are the only honest businessman I have seen defending the state.

[WestHarrison]

If it were the case I would not debate.
I suggest you just try to sell one cheeseburger on your doorstep without breaking a law. I am waiting.

If you never tried to build a business and secure your income from tax payers, then sure you are in pony land. (Either that or your business is protected from competitor by the state)

Ive had a business for 18 years.  No problems here.  And a lot of business sell cheeseburgers.  Where is your problem exactly?

Because you can't do that with licence of government and paying them fees up front.
If you can't do business on the doorstep of your own house, then don't talk about any freedom to choose and non aggression.

I know that lot of business sell cheeseburger, but it is ridiculously complicated and impossible to do it in your own house legally.
This is the tip of the iceberg of liberty broken.

If you made the kind of business that can survive thanks to his customer, and not with special privilege, licence, and subsidies protecting your from competition, then kudo.
You are the only honest businessman I have seen defending the state.

I think your overall argument is great, just that the example of cheeseburgers wasn't the best.

[Nicolas Dorier]

I prefer pizza or French fries actually. But it still applies ! :p

[twiifm]

If it were the case I would not debate.
I suggest you just try to sell one cheeseburger on your doorstep without breaking a law. I am waiting.

If you never tried to build a business and secure your income from tax payers, then sure you are in pony land. (Either that or your business is protected from competitor by the state)

Ive had a business for 18 years.  No problems here.  And a lot of business sell cheeseburgers.  Where is your problem exactly?

Because you can't do that with licence of government and paying them fees up front.
If you can't do business on the doorstep of your own house, then don't talk about any freedom to choose and non aggression.

I know that lot of business sell cheeseburger, but it is ridiculously complicated and impossible to do it in your own house legally.
This is the tip of the iceberg of liberty broken.

If you made the kind of business that can survive thanks to his customer, and not with special privilege, licence, and subsidies protecting your from competition, then kudo.
You are the only honest businessman I have seen defending the state.

Im not defending the state.  I just acknowledge that a state is there.  The state never hindered my business.  The competition however, hinders my business greatly.  Haha

BTW im pretty sure its pretty cheap and easy to register as a sole proprietorship.  So I dont know what complications you are talking about.  

[leopard2]

Does anyone have an idea on what happen if a country decide to go back to a Gold standard?

Imagine that there is no threat to this country come from the others. It's a middle sized economy.

Its economy would become strong. It would not be able to inflate there currency for obvious reason.

What are the pros and cons? A fly solo like this is even possible/imaginable?

I'm just curious to know what you guys think it might happens.

Weapons of mass destruction or terrorist training camps will be found and the country will be liberated, what else? 

[BootstrapCoinDev]

Bitcon simply has the 'features' required. I think its more a matter of when society is ready for something like it, this bicoin crypto tech offers a true opportunity away from centralization. I made a more humorous post around similar thoughts.  http://servanlog.blogspot.com/... Also the loss issue you point out with a paper equivalent is still present with bitcoin. If people loose a wallet or  their key in some way , those bitcoins and gone forever. But thats ok as they are not sitting anywhere in the physical world to be seen and claimed, i dont think anyone would ever know there is no owner to those lost coins, but there will forever be a growing proportion of the final 21million coins issued that is 'lost'.