“Jeff Berwick is interviewed on Bloomberg TV about Galt’s Gulch Chile and Bitcoin. Many businesses such as Subway and Shopify are accepting bitcoin and Jeff is very optimistic about it’s future.”
“We used the deep web to find out just how easy it was to buy guns, drugs, and other contraband online.”
“Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and famed Silicon Valley investor, has revealed he believes bitcoin could make some serious waves in the world of finance. Speaking at the Thiel Foundation Under 20 Summit, last weekend, Thiel said he gave a talk back in 1999 that mentioned the end of monetary sovereignty and how encrypted money was going to ‘change the world’. ‘I do think bitcoin is the first one of these that has the potential to do something like that,’ he added. The investor addressed the anti-bitcoin arguments that digital currency is ‘fake’, a temporary ‘bubble’ and ‘doesn’t represent anything real’ by stating that a lot of these arguments actually apply to the US dollar too.”
http://www.coindesk.com/peter-thiel-claims-bitcoin-potential-change-world/
“Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed talks about the project and the implications of 3D printing and cryptography on politics and the nation-state.”
“Ulbricht identified as a supporter of Ron Paul’s in 2008 and even attempted to become a delegate for the then-presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention. Last December, in a 35-minute interview with his best friend, Rene Pinnell, for NPR partner StoryCorps, Ulbricht describes his first love, his move out West and his dreams for the future. Ulbricht said, ‘I’m gonna do a few things. I’m pretty sure I want to start a family in the next five years. … And make more friends and close people I love. I want to focus on being more connected to people.’ In 20 years, he said, ‘I want to have had a substantial positive impact on the future of humanity by that time.'”
“Compared with politics or the slow road of mass education, the work of hacking Leviathan through innovation is a promising road forward. Something’s happening. It’s like the Singularity for civil disobedience. Pandora’s box. Perhaps a series of innovation tidal waves. A whole lot of people are participating in a great unfolding. And if you’re drawing up grand social engineering plans, throw them out. The world is about to get a lot more dynamic. Here are just 50 ways people are working around State obstacles.”
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/fifty-ways-to-leave-leviathan
“After two and a half years running the booming anonymous narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road, thedrug kingpin who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts has allegedly been unmasked. The Department of Justice has seized the website of the Silk Road’s as well as somewhere between $3.5 to 4 million in bitcoins, the cryptographic currency used to buy drugs on the Silk Road. In his conversation with me, which took place on July 4th, the Silk Road administrator calling himself the Dread Pirate Roberts espoused Libertarian ideals and claimed that the use of Bitcoin in combination with Tor had stymied law enforcement and ‘won the State’s War on Drugs.'”
“Progressives may call it the ‘sharing economy’ while Libertarians may refer to it as Agorism – a ‘society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution.’ Together, they’re opting out of the current socioeconomic matrix and creating a new alternative economy where trading occurs peer-to-peer and increasingly without government-issued currency. It’s a space where mutual trade occurs without burdensome taxes, regulations, or licenses, an underground black market enabled by the Internet and regulated by social feedback mechanisms — and it’s growing exponentially.”
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/peer-to-peer-economy-thrives-as.html
“Withdrawing consent does not mean being anti-social. Just the opposite. Going toward a natural order and society of life, freedom and property is the natural law alternative to the state and its artificial legalistic order. Withdrawing consent can go much deeper than these changes. It can mean seeking out the underground economy, homeschooling, leaving the country, and avoiding the mainstream media interpretations. I have the faith that the natural order of life, freedom and property is going to prevail eventually without using violence and that the state will some day be viewed as a perverse aberration based on false ideas.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/withdrawing-consent-means-more-than-it-may-seem/
“One of the sites that was more or less a copy of The Silk Road and the second largest online black market, The Atlantis Market, was forced to shut their doors for good due to ‘security’ reasons. Atlantis offered black market, anonymous items, in exchange for Bitcoin and Litecoin. Users will have one week to withdraw any of their funds before the market shuts down permanently. Below is a statement from the Atlantis team.”
http://cryptosource.org/atlantis-online-drug-black-market-shuts-its-doors/