What I haven’t figured out yet is why the libertarian community - I mean here primarily American / Anglo libertarians - has been so relatively subdued in its response to Bitcoin…

You (we!) have a brilliant, beautiful, and correct moral philosophy — we correctly identify the state as the locus of evil in modern life, *and its central bank as the insidious engine which fuels that evil*.

Until 2009 there was little to be done to meaningfully combat this. Educate through articles and books and quixotic political campaigns… But if we were at all realistic, it was to be a battle of decades and perhaps centuries (not unlike that to abolish slavery). We simply didn’t have any tool, any weapon to strike at the heart of the state.

And then along comes Bitcoin. It’s as if Frodo and Gandalf and co didn’t even know about Mt Doom - didn’t think there was any way possible to counter Sauron - and then one day they find out, wonder of wonders, there is a way.

Doesn’t your entire mission become - well - the exact plot of the Lord of the Rings: using the one path at your disposal to destroy this evil once and for all?

So why when you look at the libertarian world does Bitcoin, our Mt Doom - our great answer, get passing and fragmented interest… but nothing more. Is it a lack of education? A lack of conviction? An unwillingness to believe the battle is actually winnable?