Three past threads on it.
Two interesting posts from theymos and Peter Todd.
So as far as markets are concerned I'm a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free.
Would the creator of Bitcoin say something like that?
For the record, I said that *I* met Assange, not Satoshi.
And there's nothing terribly interesting about that: he wanted to know more about Bitcoin, and someone who's a friend of a friend suggested we chat next time I was in London; I'm always happy to talk about Bitcoin to people.