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Category: Free Markets
Why Bitcoin Matters
Editor’s Pick. Written by Marc Andreessen. A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers. Political idealists project visions of liberation and revolution onto it; establishment elites heap contempt and scorn on it. On the other hand, technologists –…
Basics of Bitcoin
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How the Silk Road Shutdown Makes Everyone Less Safe
Editor’s Pick. Written by Cathy Reisenwitz. It took someone named Dread Pirate Roberts to create a way for people to buy and sell illegal drugs without the threat of getting hurt and with little threat of getting ripped off. His deep website, Silk Road, was the eBay of the underworld until it was seized by…
Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan
Editor’s Pick. Written by Max Borders and Jeffrey Tucker. State management of society is not only contrary to human liberty; it is also unworkable. It cannot achieve what it seeks to achieve, which is often all-round control of some sector of economic and social life. The attempt provokes a social backlash. People find loopholes and…
Corporations: Incentive to Harm
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sima Qian. As left-anarchists are often quick to point out, corporations have a bloody history. During the colonial era corporate structures were some of the most effective tools of conquest, and today that legacy lives on with “security” firms like G4s, or weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or BAE…
Intellectual Property is Not True Property
Editor’s Pick. Written by David S. D’Amato. In a world where the “new economy” — the Information Age’s digital one — has rendered traditional capital goods such as heavy machinery significantly less important, issues surrounding intellectual property are arguably more urgent than ever before. The course that the political class has chosen in its analyses…
Intellectual Property and Mind Control
Editor’s Pick. Written by Foo Quuxman. Much has been said about the problems of intellectual property here and elsewhere which I won’t go into today, however there is one implication of IP that I have not noticed in any of the writings of the anti-IP thinkers Property is defined as the exclusive right to possess…
Yin and Yang: The Market and the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Greg Allmain. One of the oldest and most popular representations of the duality of man and nature is the Yin and Yang. Light and dark, life and death, happiness and sadness, all bundled up in a simple black and white symbol. The idea of Yin and Yang can also be applied…
Holding on to Collectivized Security
Editor’s Pick. Written by Shawn Gregory. As an anarchist, I am accustomed to getting grief from conservatives, progressives, and Statists of other stripes, but among libertarians, I occasionally get significant grief from those with whom should otherwise be on much friendlier terms: minarchists. Generally speaking, there are two types of minarchists. The first kind of…