To agree with your insight that the early 90’s battle for privacy is very much relevant today.
I have this very magazine in my office. 
Discussion
Hell yea
Zach, thanks so much for joining us! I was a huge Ron Paul supporter back in 2008 and was a big fan of Reason. Since then I’ve followed politics, but haven’t had any desire to participate given the bleak state of the two-party system.
I’ve been a bitcoiner for almost 4-years now and it always surprises me that there isn’t more overlap between the libertarian and bitcoin movements. Why do you think this is? They seem to go hand in hand… sound money, limited government, self-sovereignty. I just didn’t see much of a libertarian presence on Bitcoin twitter, and definitely not on Nostr.
Anyway, thanks again for joining us! Looking forward to checking out your stuff and Reason after a bit of a hiatus!
Thanks man!
My impression is that there’s a large overlap between bitcoiners and libertarians. I’d venture most are in the libertarian-to-ancap spectrum, no?
As for the libertarians who aren’t bitcoiners or at least bitcoin-curious, I think it’s mostly hardcore goldbugs.
I graduated College 2007.
This resonates. RP planted seeds.
Market Crash and Satoshi were the second phase of the inception. 
Graduated ‘09 and actually helped host RP at my fraternity. Was the most genuine politician I’ve ever met after 4 years of college in New Hampshirite
Class of ‘07 here too. Ayn Rand and Ron Paul changed my life that year. Unfortunately didn’t get into bitcoin until much much later.
Zach, I think you’re right… most Bitcoiners tend to be ancaps which is one small subset of libertarians. But still always surprised that I rarely see politically active libertarians on BT or Nostr. We need to bring some more on here!
Yeah, I was going to say that I think there is tremendous overlap with libertarians and Bitcoiners. I came to libertarianism first and it wasn’t until I understood Austrian Economics that I finally grasped Bitcoin
Having been in the Bitcoin space and tapping into Bitcoin Twitter/Nostr, I feel like every Bitcoiner is a libertarian (even if they don’t identify as one).
Even though I once fell in this camp, I’m surprised that more libertarians aren’t Bitcoiners. I’m actually starting to think that Bitcoiners are far more organized than libertarian and. The latter needs to take notes from the former.
The OG Cypherpunks were “Hayekian”
Cryptography is libertarian at its core.
Math and Freedom.
It’s full circle really.
The more I dig, the more I think the key to personal freedom might be finding like minded people and building your own personal “nation” of like minded freedom loving people
I sure want to keep helping spread that to the masses, but freedom is an individual concept
Even in the freest society, each individual would still have to fight for their own version of freedom
Spot on 🤙