Quote from: curator on March 04, 2011, 04:47:14 PM

Quote from: So_Cynical on March 04, 2011, 03:48:40 PM

I suppose one alternative market for BTC is "American refugee's" these people tend to be older Americans with strong Republican leanings, politically right wing with somewhat extremist views, they are also often gun nuts and they don't want the socialist Obama Govt to know what there doing...i tend to bump into them on alternative retirement forums (Panama and the Philippines) don't know how they would take the anarchist thing though? Undecided

these guys tend not to be too tolerant and accepting.

Maybe Bitcoin needs a spokes person or 2 to do promotional (forum) work?

I think you just described my leanings, so I'll respond Wink

. I look at Bitcoin to be a well controlled currency (unlike the printing press crazy USD, or the jacked out CHN yuan), that happens to be "government free" rather than "anarchist" (which to me, is two separate situations). The possibility of easy conversion to local currency is what really attracts me, besides being a life long geek who has been processing on distributed.net for years.

To push Bitcoin, I propose looking at what the third parties to facebook do: make scan cards that can be filled up at store registers and push Bitcoin as the choice for purchasing virtual goods.

Government free and anarchy aren't necessarily different Wink

I used to think that as well, but after some reading on the subject I've come over to the Anarcho-Capitalist side of things.

So don't discredit it offhand, do some reading! I'll be posting a paper within a few months that will give a mostly economic and historic look at Anarcho-Capitalism, might be worth your time.

And I think that your idea is good if we can get the technical limitations fixed - though as long as you have a trusted corporation running the business, no problem, it would work similarly to most other cards.