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# The Bitcoin Manifesto
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The Bitcoin Manifesto
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April 10, 2011, 04:56:35 PM
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From my friend Jaromil. I love this little speech:
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hi Aharon,
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, a...@aharonic.net wrote:
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> bitcoins - isn't this simply a distributed structure to do
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> capitalism with?
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That's not even the worst you can do with it. you can do money
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laundering, buy drugs online and sex toys, all anonymously. but
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that's not the point, because despite the coercion imposed by all
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kinds of regulatory systems so far, also current official monetary
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systems are full of that shit, on top of the capitalist pie.
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Emerging technologies should never be judged by the sensationally bad
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taste of early adopters. it's like being concerned about the shit that
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fertilizes some beautiful flowers, wasting their seeds.
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What really bitcoin is, I finally understood on the 6 april (which
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somehow always ends up being a magic day, eh!): this is now the end of
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the *flow capitalism*, which consists of the monopoly on transactions,
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the hegemony of banks on the movement of values and not just their
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storage, this middle-man mafia strangling the world as we speak.
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How right are now those South American countries asking the "taxation
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of transactions", an argument refrained in many speeches of the
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companeros. They studied the system and understood that there is a
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crucial problem there, that needs to be solved urgently. Yet i'd argue
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here taxation on transaction cannot be the solution. The solution is
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to eliminate the flow capitalists.
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If i want to give you money i'll give it to *you*. me and you,
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period. its fine that we'll pay our taxes for our communities, don't
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get me wrong this is not a tea bagger argument. its just not right
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that all what we do is in the hands of a third party, that has been
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caught cheating already many times: look at what happened at the
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paypal accounts of the Iraqi linux user group back in 2004, or even
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more recently to Wikileaks.
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We don't need those fat cheaters to be in between our value
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transactions anymore; the flow capital has played its disgusting role
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in the little laps of history for which it has been needed, now sadly
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these people won't give up what they have accumulated, so it makes
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more sense to leave them alone and multiply more monetary systems that
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work efficiently across diverse networks and that rely on the
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neutrality of a cryptographic authentication.
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the death of the flow capital is a new stage for the necrotization of
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capitalism.
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ciao
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Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5671.0
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