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A Propaganda War

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“We’ve long imagined that only the state and its central bankers can issue money. The Bitcoin protocol directly challenges that notion.  Most importantly, unlike similar inventions before it, Bitcoin can only be stifled. It can never be stopped. Its importance is unequivocal.  As Bitcoin continues to spread globally, we, as a community, must grapple with a very challenging and unsettling question of principle: should Bitcoin actively engage the apparatus of state?   Bitcoin is getting political. Parties are forming. unSystem, through its Dark Wallet, has ostensibly drawn a line in the sand. There is much at stake. A battle is now on for the protocol and the hearts and minds of we, the 99%.”

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7991/a-propoganda-war/

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Cypherpunks, Bitcoin & the Myth of Satoshi Nakamoto

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“For those wary of Bitcoin’s pedigree, it may comfort them to know that it emerged directly from a culture of programmers who champion open-source software (also known as free software) like Sir Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web. The ‘shadowy hacker’ label that is sometimes ascribed to Satoshi Nakamoto is fair in some ways because that’s the way he intended it. Satoshi thus embodies all the things that the original Cypherpunks were trying so hard to impress upon us: our fundamental right to privacy. It is Bitcoin’s capacity to protect some aspects of our privacy from GCHQ and the NSA that makes it valuable – to a degree. But it’s more than that.”

http://www.cybersalon.org/cypherpunk/

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Digital Apocalypse: An Interview with Cody Wilson

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“Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed talks about the project and the implications of 3D printing and cryptography on politics and the nation-state.”

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Adam Brandon – NSA Spying in the Spotlight

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“Both sides of the political aisle are teaming up to stop Government spying since privacy is a thing of the past thanks to the NSA.”

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StopWatching.Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance 10/26/13

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“Thousands came together in Washington, DC on October 26, 2013 to protest the NSA’s mass surveillance programs.”

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Marijuana Legalization Wins Big on Election Night 2013

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“The movement to legalize and regulate adult marijuana use continued to gain momentum last night, as voters in four separate cities overwhelmingly approved citywide ballot measures eliminating criminal and civil penalties for adults who possesses the plant. Portland became the first city on the East Coast to legalize possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana for adults over 21.  In addition to Portland, three localities in Michigan (Ferndale, Jackson, and Lansing) all voted in support of marijuana legalization today by huge margins. The three areas had similar proposals to remove criminal and civil penalties for personal possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana.”

http://norml.org/news/2013/11/06/legalization-wins-big-on-election-night-2013

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Bitcoin Takes Away Power From The State

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“Aaron Koenig Networks With IamSatoshi.”

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Defense Distributed Plans to Make Bitcoins Completely Anonymous

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“The inventor of the 3D-printed gun, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, is now raising money for a new crypto-anarchist venture that will help people anywhere in the world keep their wealth and finances private.  The project is called Dark Wallet, an anonymous easy-to-use Bitcoin wallet. The wallet will be a discreet browser plugin for Chrome or Firefox that will make the public Bitcoin log less traceable. While names may never be a used in a Bitcoin transaction, certain metadata is traceable through an open source log which could lead to identifying the user. Dark Wallet would eliminate the reliability of the public metadata.”

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/cody-wilson-bitcoin-dark-wallet-defense.html

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‘Tech Should Make It Easier To Escape Government Control’

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“Srinivasan references Google CEO Larry Page’s recent call to ‘set aside a part of the world’ for unregulated experimentation, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s prediction of rapid creation of new countries in the years to come. But those new spaces don’t have to be location-based, he argues. 3D printing will make it impossible to ban physical objects. Virtual currencies like Bitcoin can render capital controls unenforceable and put stored wealth beyond the reach of the state. Telepresence and remotely controlled robots will allow people to ‘be’ anywhere without physically crossing a border.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/30/tech-should-make-it-easier-to-escape-the

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Seasteading: Entrepreneurship in Government on the High Seas

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