You can’t have “nothing”, truth is always grounded in something— especially mathematics, believing in the mathematics is believing in the order and stability of the universe of which you are a part.

It’s incredibly shallow thinking to call that anarchy.

It’s like staring directly at the face of God, the very word of God, and saying “there’s nothing here”

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Are you sure you're using 'anarchy' in the same way that the OP is?

Yes, he’s referring to anarchy in the classical sense of no rulers or authority, voluntarism — which is a shallow philosophy and can be applied to economics or politics, sure, but when he says “Bitcoin is anarchy” this is just false, presupposing mathematics and an orderly universe, a network protocol, a monetary system, even a stable game theory, how the state will react over time, how new economies will form, none of this is “anarchy”

It’s like saying a bicycle is anarchy…

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

He's talking about a peer to peer electronic cash system. This peer to peer electronic cash system has no rulers or authority.

Ethereum has human rulers that can change the code.

Dogecoin has human rulers that can change the code.

Bitcoin has no human rulers.

That’s obviously true, but not what I’m talking about.

God can change the math, the word of god for our purpose to destroy bitcoin. Perhaps we will find Dead Sea Scrolls with math we have yet to discover(eg. Quantum Computing).

Bitcoin is still anarchy because it cannot be changed by:

- The Divine rule of kings

- Presidental emergency powers

- An act of Congress

- A Dictator

- Democracy

Anarchy is not rules without god. That's a different subject.

Anarchy is rules without rulers.