Bitcoin is now facing a year-on-year loss in value as the cryptocurrency continues to decline. This comes as it is celebrating its tenth birthday. Ten years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous founder detailed in a document how Bitcoin would proceed and why it was needed. Almost all of his predictions were incorrect. All of mine…
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire (liberal idealist) VS. “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” – Joseph V. Stalin (pragmatic revolutionary)
Murder needs to be legalized. Illegal murder only pushes it into the black market, where cartels of thugs can overcharge and abuse their position given a lack of competition. Making murder legal also allows it to be taxed and regulated, so that murderers can work in sanitary and humane conditions, and revenues can be used…
For the end of 2013 the “Anarcho”-Capitalism Sub-reddit did a survey of its users to see what their demographics were. They had the people who commonly use it go to a form and answer several questions. The results are not surprising in the least. Here is what I learned from it, or rather, what I…
Just to let you guys know I’ve begun my next book critiquing a work by Larken Rose, “The Most Dangerous Superstition”. The superstition is the belief that government authority is legitimate. In the book he lays out why government is illegitimate by giving his own definition of what authority is. His definition is so convoluted…
I was sent a blog by a friend on Facebook where this libertarian makes the same irrational claim, the freer the market the freer the people. Since it’s now easy for me to debunk such arguments I decided to go ahead and make a reply to it showing the logical gaps in his statements and…
By blogger Lord Keynes (who is cool) It was once claimed by Murray Rothbard that deflation was the natural state of the economy: or, that is to say, what Rothbard imagined as the “natural state” in his anarcho-capitalist fantasy world. Needless to say, anarcho-capitalism has never existed in the real world, so we really have…
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