Julian Assange Show - Cypherpunks

[cbeast]

Cyperpunks episode Part 2 is on RT. Part 1 from last week is in the archives of RT. I missed it last week, so I need to catch up.

[Stephen Gornick]

Link?

[elux]

http://assange.rt.com/

[herzmeister]

i watched the first minutes yesterday (of episode I i think), they do talk a lot around that subject, but they don't mention bitcoin, do they?

[Raoul Duke]

i watched the first minutes yesterday (of episode I i think), they do talk a lot around that subject, but they don't mention bitcoin, do they?

1 time only when talking about finance and the power finance has. They say something like:
"Why do you think the creator of Bitcoin wanted to remain anonymous?"
I think it was Jacob Applebaum
And that was it lol

[molecular]

i watched the first minutes yesterday (of episode I i think), they do talk a lot around that subject, but they don't mention bitcoin, do they?

1 time only when talking about finance and the power finance has. They say something like:
"Why do you think the creator of Bitcoin wanted to remain anonymous?"
I think it was Jacob Applebaum
And that was it lol

that was not "it". If one actually listens, a not just scans for the word "bitcoin", one can find this gem:

...isn't actually the freedom and the privacy of the economic interactions more important than the freedom of speech?

[cbeast]

i watched the first minutes yesterday (of episode I i think), they do talk a lot around that subject, but they don't mention bitcoin, do they?

1 time only when talking about finance and the power finance has. They say something like:
"Why do you think the creator of Bitcoin wanted to remain anonymous?"
I think it was Jacob Applebaum
And that was it lol

that was not "it". If one actually listens, a not just scans for the word "bitcoin", one can find this gem:

...isn't actually the freedom and the privacy of the economic interactions more important than the freedom of speech?

Nice catch.

[herzmeister]

that's what I meant by talking around it, but I wonder if they avoided to mention BTC on purpose? 

[cbeast]

that's what I meant by talking around it, but I wonder if they avoided to mention BTC on purpose? 

Yeah like everyone else, at least until after the block reward halves. 

[herzmeister]

everyone else? until after the block reward halves? wha? why? mee stoopid. 'splain me pls. 

[cbeast]

everyone else? until after the block reward halves? wha? why? mee stoopid. 'splain me pls. 

I think there are a lot of projects and announcements waiting in the wings until after the block reward halves. I think a lot of people don't want the price going up a lot while the fruit is hanging low.

[herzmeister]

oh... ok then i'll keep my mouth shut also 

[cbeast]

oh... ok then i'll keep my mouth shut also 

I would rather believe that than the alternative notion that the luminary cypherpunks have little interest in Bitcoin.

[molecular]

that's what I meant by talking around it, but I wonder if they avoided to mention BTC on purpose? 

One possible explanation is envy. These are crypto-nerds and probably none of them is satoshi.