Remember Virgil Griffith?

[ericbarbour]

Created the Wikiscanner tool back in 2007 to show relationships between Wikipedia editors. It went down long ago but generated some media attention at the time.

Virgil is a big online "libertarian" type who believes deeply in the magic of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. And oops

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... sanctions/

[Carrite]

Those zany libertarians, helping out that friendly libertarian regime in North Korea.

MONEY > principles

RfB

[Strelnikov]

Those zany libertarians, helping out that friendly libertarian regime in North Korea.

MONEY > principles

RfB

If you are up on the history of American "Libertarianism" then the pro-Nazi, anti-Soviet sympathies of Fred Koch (father of Charles and the recently deceased David) are known to you, as well as the endless amount of Isolationist, pro-Axis figures Charlie's mentor Robert LeFevre worked for or hung around with in the 1930s-40s. If capitalism is your god, you don't give a whit about democracy - the ballot box and unions are to be bought off or minimized, and that's how the Kochs worked it, and how the cryptocurrency enthusiasts are doing it now. The DPRK is watching what has gone on in China with Bitcoin mining (government allowed it, then they banned it.) Any attempt to exploit the volatile " 'coin" market by the Worker's Party of Korea or the DPRK government would mostly end up like their meth production and shipping illegal oil - cracked down on and not a major trade. Disrupting crypto would be a great benefit to the world as the mining and running exchanges now gobbles up as much energy as Ireland consumes in a year.