Comments on: A political evaluation of bitcoin

By: Marc Gauvin

Marc Gauvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:30:22 +0000

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By: Marc Gauvin

Marc Gauvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:29:07 +0000

http://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/14-english-root/132-bitcoin-vs-passive-bibo-currency#bitcoinissues

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bitcoin cloud mining list 2015 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:06:03 +0000

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By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:15:56 +0000

Can I be opposed to propertarian libertarianism (and other antisocial uses of private property) and still be positive towards the socioeconomic utility of conditional ownership of private property?

By: Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:49:09 +0000

In reply to James Moulding. of course!

By: James Moulding

James Moulding — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:40:16 +0000

An excellent and cogent critique, may I reblog this on Cybersalon.org?

By: David Week

David Week — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:46:27 +0000

Hi Michel. Very helpful article. Now I can stop arguing about bitcoin and just point to this.

One amusing typo you should (perhaps sadly) correct:

“…80% of loans are provided by big bangs and institutions,”

By: Keith Hart

Keith Hart — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:37:33 +0000

All very true, Michel, and a beacon of clarity which I have already circulated to my friends. Given your title, I imagined that you would focus on the politics of Bitcoin. Maybe you thought the political implications of your assessment are obvious. But it needs to be said that Bitcoin shares with neoliberal experiments like the euro and techno-utopians everywhere the dream of a pure money without politics. And when the politics of money is not openly acknowledged, it goes underground in all sorts of perverse ways, as with the bad money retained by French and German banks or the role that Mt Gox once played as a pseudo-central bank or that the Fed and China can still play in dertermining its future.

Keith

By: David Orban

David Orban — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:15:41 +0000

This is a very valuable addition to the conversation around themes that are seldom discussed at sufficient depth. The political implications of the Bitcoin architecture are not fully understood, and too many people passively expect the genius of its creator(s) to have had a all-seeing power and desire for positive change.

Your corrections of several superficial generalizations about the opportunities for equality and emancipation that this specific implementation of Blockchain based cryptocurrencies offers are very lucid. The way you highlight the immediate capacity of existing forces to bend abstractly neutral technologies to their advantage is important.

We are only at the beginning of course in understanding how all of this is going to unfold. Your mention of the promise of 2.0 cryptotech like Ethereum, underlining their promise but confirming that they need additional empirical proof through close to perfect execution is I an indication of a balance that one can seldom find elsewhere.

I am very happy that your conclusions are positive, and I am looking forward to continuing the dialog both here and on other platforms of online conversations.

PS: I also posted a version of this comment sharing your post on Facebook in the “Internet of Money” group, and if you have the opportunity I’d welcome your additional comments there as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetofmoney/permalink/703760969679715/

By: Christina Zottnick

Christina Zottnick — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:51:35 +0000

I second that. Well done!