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Comment by sxp

This was an awesome concept at the time. It was one of the reasons I became pro-Bitcoin along with Cryptonomicon. Unfortunately, Stross became anti-crypto afterwards: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-w...

The technolibertarian ideology that was in some of his earlier writing were replaced with more authoritarian & leftist views so he said "BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions." as if it was a bad thing.

P.S, what's the basis of your username? Any relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cstross ?

parent sxp 5 years ago

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