Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
(Originally published in October of 2013)
You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.
Yet here I am – just a few hours later, feeling very optimistic. Why? Because the philosophy of freedom just showed itself to be massively stronger than statism and its “don’t think, just obey” philosophy.
Here’s What Happened
As I was finishing my lunch, I saw a story posted on the takedown/crash. I did a bit of checking and conversed with a friend, and then hustled over to a place I know where crypto-anarchists hang out online.
These guys were already talking about replacing Silk Road, and doing a better job of it.
Forget about the drugs aspect of this – I don’t care for drugs and neither do the people I listened in on – they just want to build free markets.
Contrast that to a financial site, where I found a couple of Bitcoin haters, a Fed trying to supercharge as much fear as he/she could, and several people trying to buy Bitcoin at its lows… either that or lamenting that they were out of extra cash.
Obey?
I don’t think that I will.
Communism always fails because people like to own stuff as Frank Zappa said.
Enemedia is saying stuck astronauts could return on SpaceX.
Mars? Go to Pluto.
Breaking from Celly Cel, E-40, Rappin’ 4 Tay, Mack 10:
It’s Goin’ Down (Remix)