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The Coming Digital Anarchy

Jeffrey Tucker June 9, 2014 at 2:14 pm

I posted this piece on the News Stream but it is something you really don’t want to miss.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10881213/The-coming-digital-anarchy.html

He describes the economic and political implications of blockchain technology, what this innovation is about and what it could mean for our future. It is hugely exciting development — something not unknown to people who attend Bitcoin conferences and read in the cyberpunk literature. But for the mainstream media to pick it up is really great.

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RJ Miller September 20, 2015 at 12:41 am

One year later and that article seems less and less unrealistic with every passing month. Timothy C. May must be really elated right now 🙂

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Guy Zino September 20, 2015 at 5:58 pm

While I was watching Deep Web last night I realized that these cryptographers were probably the vanguard of a new world free of centralized control by paranoid government. I am not a tech person, so this was a true revelation to me. I also had no idea that Ross Ulbricht was a fan of Von Mises. These guys may be the true libertarian revolutionaries.

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Seth Cochran September 20, 2015 at 10:02 pm

I don’t believe individuals have underestimated the radical change that this technology can bring about. I believe individuals have underestimated the extreme lengths the state will go to in order to secure their ability to monopolize power and force.

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  Guy Zino September 20, 2015 at 10:23 pm
  
  As long as the government has the resources, they will do what they can to secure their power but, if there is only so much they can do and there are a lot more of us than them. Even though they shut down Silk Road more and more independent similar websites kept popping up the replace it. They shut down more, but more kept popping up.
  
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  RJ Miller September 22, 2015 at 6:02 am
  
  Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I think the opposite could be argued.
  
  When I first became familiar with crypto-anarchy (in the wake of Wikileaks’ first major releases), I remember everyone used to wonder whether or not varies agencies had access to some kind of quantum computing to break traditional asymmetric algorithms. After Snowden spoke out, we then had the reassurance that not only can encryption work, it’s so effective that major government agencies spend more time attacking end-to-end security instead.
  
  No one I knew ever said to themselves that the govt. would passively give up. Which is why cypherpunks of all political stripes ought to put whatever effort they can into keeping Snowden’s claim about encryption accurate.
  
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