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Anyone who understands Bitcoin is rejoicing. I'm sure he's also happy to hang out with the banks, it's a win-win for everyone: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/30-top-banks-and-mike-he…

The OP is one-sided deceptive propaganda. What I linked to is the other side. Or do you prefer to hear only one side? There's no ad-hominem in that link btw. EDIT: I value truth ov…

https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

How is adding context and information rude?

This is Mike Hearn. https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

Excellent post. And those who want to understand Mike better should read this: https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

I did. Did you click the first link I posted and read all the links within it? If not, start there: https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange... You have to unde…

All of Mike's arguments have been addressed by multiple people. More than any other individual, Mike has wasted the Bitcoin community's time and caused the most amount of harm to i…

Mike's just mad that he failed to sabotage Bitcoin: https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange... This appears to be the 89th obituary for Bitcoin? https://99bitc…

> Oh sure. I didn't expect an immediate answer to the question. I do hope you get back to me on this, though. :) Sure, I can do that off of HN if you contact me via email or twitte…

> To apply the first bullet point at the end of the essay [0] would necessarily mean the end of the US's Federal Republic. Do you disagree? It totally depends on whether groups/sta…

Apologies, reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze. For footnote [3] my reply is that representative democracy is one of a vast variety of possibl…

> From what I understand, there's a whole raft of really good, reproducible research on how to tease out what people mean from what they say Having a game of telephone for a govern…

That's a fair point, but from what you've shared it sounds more like an invasion of sorts than an actual secession movement. Do you know how much of a majority they had? If it was …

> So, it is physically impossible to even pay lip service to what you propose in either fourty-six, or fourty-eight of the states in the US. lol, that is the opposite of my proposa…

Replying just to the last part of your edit: > Witness the neo-Nazi group that tried to take over a town in North Dakota as an existence proof of the phenomenon. That's the kind of…

I'll copy a reply I wrote to a similar question elsewhere. This is a reply that was written in response to a comment on this post: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists…

> Withdrawing consent is withdrawing from the system to which you no longer consent. You haven't actually defined "withdrawing consent" there, you've just repeated the phrase "with…

> Show us what you've done. My C.V.: https://fixingtao.com/cv/ EDIT: just noticed you stealth-edited this in: > And I mean what you've done about withdrawing the consent, not about…

I am saying that if a large group of people feel they are being abused by a system that does not represent them, they are always free to reject that system and adopt another one th…

So go ahead and create your own country. You won't be the first (nor the last) to have done so.

> Rejecting the entire concept of having leadership and structure because these particular leaders aren't perfect... That's not what I'm suggesting at all. I'm saying pick a struct…

> Paying fines and/or avoiding jail (within the system) are not free as in beer. Well, in terms of copyright law it really depends. People violate copyright law all the time (see t…

lol @ HN downvoters who can't handle reality. That's OK, I understand and respect that you've chosen to subject yourself to rules you don't like. Just less whining and complaining,…