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Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
Edvard:
Ask anybody who's tried minting their own stable-resource-backed money, like the banks used to do in the good/bad old days. I can't remember the name of the book, but I used to have one that detailed the trials and tribulations of people with the best of intentions and great ideas on how to rebuild our economy with a monetary system that gave actual value to it's currency, but ended up eventually running afoul of their greatest competition, the Federal Reserve. :-\
When I first heard of BitCoins, I said to myself that this was eventually going to happen.
It always does... :(
mouser:
I can't remember the name of the book, but I used to have one that detailed the trials and tribulations of people with the best of intentions and great ideas on how to rebuild our economy with a monetary system that gave actual value to it's currency,
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If you can remember the name of it, let us know, sounds like an interesting read!
Edvard:
I seem to recall it was a chapter in one of the many books offered by Loompanics or Paladin Press, but I can't find the title I'm looking for. It may have been touched on in "How To Start Your Own Country" by Erwin Strauss, but I'm not quite sure.
Relevant Wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_currency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency
Also read:
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/NMfHC/chp8.html
(the rest of the work is not my cup of tea, but that chapter is informative).
KynloStephen66515:
much the same way it once outlawed individual possession of gold coins and bullion.
-40hz (April 18, 2013, 08:37 PM)
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wait...what? You guys can't own gold?! Since when? o.0
40hz:
much the same way it once outlawed individual possession of gold coins and bullion.
-40hz (April 18, 2013, 08:37 PM)
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wait...what? You guys can't own gold?! Since when? o.0
-Stephen66515 (April 19, 2013, 06:13 AM)
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@Stephen - we can now. Couldn't for a good number of years starting in 1933 and ending in 1975. See here.
Remember, this is the land of the "free" and the home of the brave.
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