Quote from: kiba on August 13, 2010, 02:25:27 PM

Quote from: nelisky on August 13, 2010, 02:19:51 PM

Quote from: Cane on August 13, 2010, 12:34:54 PM

I like the idea of Bitcoin, with one exception... that the resources could be used for grater good, instead of wasting them.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I've done seti, folding@home and a few more, but bitcoin? bitcoin is not about philanthropic egos or greater goods of scales we aren't really equipped to grasp. It's all about the fairness and privacy of community markets, something all of us below the age of, what, 120 don't really understand and have been taught to loath.

More like under age 25. Market anarchists are a very young demography. We only got a few old market anarchists in their advanced age like Eric Raymond.

I think you misunderstood my point, kiba. I didn't mean agorists and market anarchists are all old, much the opposite. What I meant is everyone in my generation and the one before seems to assume taxes, mandatory disclosure of all transactions and overall giving up privacy for "everyone's gain" is obviously correct, and in fact the only way to go. Actually trading goods for goods, or otherwise having community controlled markets (which bitcoin and any other non centrally controlled currency, given enough critical mass, can facilitate) is something we, as a group of people, frown upon, just because we were taught that's how the drug lords rule the streets / kills investment in public schools / hospitals / security / roads, take your pick. We don't see just how expensive these things end up getting when the governments to them for us, I guess. Can't put a price on freedom.