Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment [LWN.net]

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Jan 20, 2016 13:54 UTC (Wed) by markhb (guest, #1003)
In reply to: Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment by linuxrocks123
Parent article: Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Here's a column on the subject and the Hearn article, by an American leftist (relative to the US political spectrum): http://www.theweek.com/articles/600099/decline-bitcoin-sh... .

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Feb 3, 2016 23:46 UTC (Wed) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link] (1 responses)

A leftist insisting that without everyone obeying and groveling to Mommy and Daddy things would be chaos? Mild shock.

Despit Hearn's flipping of the tables prior to going to work for Big Finance, Bitcoin seems to be doing fairly well. Last year it outstripped other asset classes. People use it every day. The numerous lies that Hearn wrote in his post have been refuted by people better than him, including Bram Cohen himself.

Bitcoin definitely has politics hard-coded in the protocol. It just doesn't have the politics that leftists (or rightists!) would like to force onto everyone else against their will.

For some "mysterious" reason, that seems to chafe the privates of the leftists (and the rightists).

I quite like that.

Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Posted Feb 10, 2016 20:51 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Warning: your bias is showing. Oh is it ever showing.