well, specifically what's wrong with those people is that they are wrong. about bitcoin, not the ideal - but you can only bury your head in the sand so many times about how your ideal is impossible within the circumstances you yourself outline until you stop being a tragic idealist and more of a dumb prick.
on libertarian principles: they only work in societies that wouldn't need them to prosper and have happy populaces anyway. all this sodomy, whip-each-other transmit AIDS while smoking and drinking up shit today is perfectly libertarian - boy are the people free! - and it's a catastrophe.
on bitcoin: anything that requires you to waste gigawatts of energy for no reason is retarded. USD is fake and gay but at least it always works and i don't need to pay someone else 20 bucks to run his AC on top of some GPUs so i can hand a guy a fiver. gold, even though it's very out of fashion today, is even better as it doesn't need to be printed or controlled, only weighed. how can anyone arguing for more basic, worldly restrictions on money be a reasonable libertarian? it's obvious they just want to buy drugs and can't see that 99% of realistic bitcoin usage today is already more monitored than them handling a dealer a note.
He's also wearing a bitcoin shirt. My sympathy is nonexistent.
What’s wrong with the libertarian principles behind some of the bitcoiners?
well, specifically what's wrong with those people is that they are wrong. about bitcoin, not the ideal - but you can only bury your head in the sand so many times about how your ideal is impossible within the circumstances you yourself outline until you stop being a tragic idealist and more of a dumb prick.
on libertarian principles: they only work in societies that wouldn't need them to prosper and have happy populaces anyway. all this sodomy, whip-each-other transmit AIDS while smoking and drinking up shit today is perfectly libertarian - boy are the people free! - and it's a catastrophe.
on bitcoin: anything that requires you to waste gigawatts of energy for no reason is retarded. USD is fake and gay but at least it always works and i don't need to pay someone else 20 bucks to run his AC on top of some GPUs so i can hand a guy a fiver. gold, even though it's very out of fashion today, is even better as it doesn't need to be printed or controlled, only weighed. how can anyone arguing for more basic, worldly restrictions on money be a reasonable libertarian? it's obvious they just want to buy drugs and can't see that 99% of realistic bitcoin usage today is already more monitored than them handling a dealer a note.
Gold mining literally wastes 10x more energy than bitcoin. Also if you’re merely weighing it then you’ve probably got some tungsten.
Bitcoin’s energy efficiency roughly doubles every halving. No other industry does.
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