You will be missed. 

Thats a bold statement, do you mind proving it? Your always questioning other people's statements, now I would like to question yours.

'Mainstream economic academia has literally been bought out by The Fed. '

I would ask you define that statement, bring specific examples of the Fed buying out mainstream economic academia.

Also, if you consider the Rothschild banking family and its regulatory cronies as the precipice of economic and banking exceptionalism, then yes, London is the place for you.

Good grief.

You are a Rothschild?

Go to hell Atlas, no one cares if you come, and even if you did they'd make you take coats.

Yes

Boss/Atlas, I'm primarily responsible for organising this, and I would describe myself as a Libertarian and general follower of the Austrian School (for as much as I've been able to study it).

You have to remember I started (and continue to run) GLBSE, about as free market/libertarian of a market as you can get ,so I've got the libertarian credentials.

Lets keep this thread civil and not get off topic. We'll have a whole range of speakers from all different backgrounds and areas of expertise.

It's a conference to bring bitcoin out into the world, it's debutante so to speak, it's not really going to be a place for Austrians and Keynesians to slug it out, and neither is this thread, lets keep on topic.

Yankee, same for you, also could you PM me about speaking/sponsorship, what did you have in mind?

Nefario.

Nefario.

If you guys are open to it, we could have a on-the-side economics debate. I take up Yankee's challenge of not "hiding behind the forums".

+1

In my opinion it's more than obvious that Satoshi has strong background on Austrian Economics and has been highly inspired by its money theory while developing Bitcoin, so building a good economic background on ppl using Bitcoin would be a definite plus.

I would like to come to the conference and maybe I can even be one of the speakers. I've been working on a paper about economics of Bitcoin, and I've also been at the Prague conference and the London Bitcoin Weekend. In my methodology I'm mostly Austrian, and during my research, I read many Austrian economists about Bitcoin (with many of them I was also in contact by email or otherwise). Apart from those already active on the forums, Jon Matonis and Michael Suede, also (in no particular order): David Gordon, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Stephan Kinsella, George Selgin, Robert Murphy, Peter G. Klein, Walter Block, Detlev Schlichter (one of the speakers at the Prague conference), Larry White. So I would say I know quite a lot about the overlap between the Austrian School and Bitcoin. Also if you follow the links Jon posted (just one post up) you'll seem me attempting to debate some of the attackers of Bitcoin.

The reason why Austrians are the ones mostly interested in Bitcoin is in my opinion explained the best by Gary North in Mises on Money:

PS. I agree Satoshi is a double crypto/econ genius.