wat.

I really don't get that metaphor.

i believe so. Bitcoin could lead to the establishment of a truly free market society. in a truly free market society the cost of war would tend to be born by the persons seeking the war. Contrasted to a statist society where war-mongers can internalize the benifits of war upon themselves and their buddies and externalize the costs onto the wider population through the machinery of the state with inflation, debt and taxation.

also you are never going to end war while there are still nations. The only way bitcoin could save us from war is by ending the nation state entirely.

Wars can only be ended by uprooting the state and discarding it.

Look at it this way: if America needed to wage war with nation X to produce jobs, and ultimately profits for the private entities driving America's hand, and they cannot get enough drive going to keep the process going (that is, through taxation) because Bitcoin cannot be taxed, a new tax will be introduced and many others would be removed.  Ideally, this tax will occur at the end of the year, and it will be the same for everyone.  Because Bitcoin cannot be tagged to any individual, you would no longer be able to tax individuals on capital gains or purchases.  I'm not a tax expert and there's probably plenty of ways to tax someone (like through wages or land tax), but Bitcoin can still be accommodated by the IRS to ensure they're still leeching off you at every turn.

As of today, you can get away with evading taxation through Bitcoin (and thus, put a dent in this horseshit war on terrorism,) but don't expect this to always be the case.  If need be, the government will adapt, and more taxes will be installed to replace the old ones which can no longer work.  The only way to remedy this is to break from the state and fight for a national government which cannot tax, or fight for no national government at all.

Somalia's progress since the fall of its violent state in 1991:
http://mises.org/daily/5418

Yes, I hope that Somalia continues to be thrust upon us as a place where no government exists. I hope they remember that when Somalia is one of the major African countries and surpasses many others.

Even though the UN is doing everything they can to suppress their advances.

It may be that facilitating worldwide trade without barriers will make war less attractive. That BTC is a grass-root currency created by the people, and not by governments for which every international action is some sneaky scheme to increase their power (such as the Euro), may also help. I certainly hope so. It's one of my reasons for contributing to this project at all.

Humanity will always find a way to fuck itself over I do think though that BTC will certainly make governments a lot more democratic, if BTC managed to eliminate paper currency or make it obsolete, political parties would have to work a lot harder to gain our votes because if they tried making war like they do now etc. then we'd simply stop funding them and it's not like they could just tax the difference from us like before if we objected Bitcoin is giving voters an insurance policy against political con artists.

Uh, gold/PM's are an acceptable commodity for the world since god knows how long ago, but I don't see wars stopping yet...

somolia is on its way up, if it continues to improve at the unprecedented rate that it has been improving since the fall of its state, i just might go live there at some point in the future =D Its already the best place to live in the region as measured by many metrics but these things take time, it takes time to accumulate capital and a society can not become wealthy untill after it accumulates sufficient capital.