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141: Erik Townsend – Software Millionaire Fooled by ‘The Dream’ and Saved by Global Macro

Chat With Traders

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Bitcoin: A Threat to Libertarians

I fear that the best innovations of Bitcoin will be stolen and hijacked by governments to build something. I call this new cryptocurrency the Orwell because that's really what it is. The government doesn't see it as overreach. They see it as they're calling, as their mission is, their duty. And anybody who doesn't like it is automatically assumed to be a tax cheat or a terrorist... It was designed to be a threat to them.

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