Quote from: NotLambchop on January 03, 2015, 06:22:42 PM

Quote from: RomertL on January 03, 2015, 06:08:04 PM

Quote from: Eddie Brock on January 03, 2015, 03:05:09 PM

Quote from: RomertL on January 03, 2015, 02:56:19 PM

Bitcoin will never die. You see, there's a lot libertarians and cryptoanarchists like myself that will NEVER give up on Bitcoin as long as it's functional. And we're a growing number of people. Even if all "normal" people were to be brainwashed enough to stay away from Bitcoin forever. If we're not already, we will be many enough to create our own little economy. Without theft and looting from any "government". A little bit like John Galt's society in Atlas Shrugged, only we won't have to physically hide, just use cryptography. As the bitcoin economy matures, us folks inside will have an unfair advantage towards the cattle still stuck in the Matrix. And yea, by that time price with be a LOT higher than 300 USD even without the help of the sheeple.

John Galt wasn't an anarchist though, he thought that government is very important and good... the author of that book hated libertarians/anarchists, and called them "an aberration, the scum of the intellectuals"

Well, maybe she was more of an minarchist, but definitely part of the broader libertarian category. Not sure what she thought of us anarchists, but a lot of us like her, that's for sure.

"For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called hippies of the right, who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs."--Ayn Rand, Brief Summary, The Objectivist, Vol. 10, Sep. 1971

UR welcome

Ah, I understand. She's talking about so called left-wing anarchists aka anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, that's what she means with collectivist movement. And regarding those, I fully agree with her. When I say anarchist I mean anarcho-capitalist/volunteryist, which I regard as the only true form of anarchism. We anarcho-capitalists believes that everything we do in our life should be of our own choice as long as it doesn't conflict we every bodies right to own their own body and the value it creates. Which doesn't allow for governments since they're not financed by voluntary actions but rather rely on theft, and that tries to inflict laws on us that dictates how we live our lifes. And we're defenitly not a commectivist movement, we're an individualist movement.