this is true. 

we all have huge gains to protect and mining or being a node is something all of us should want to do.  not only that, if the coins you make go and add several zeros onto the end you'll not regret it.

Is it just me, or did he openly declare war on DC and everything it stands for?

His side is the side I want to be on.

Also, I've thought about investing in Blueseed but I'm not an accredited US investor.

So I take it to mean that they are important facilitators of great human creations, much like how war industry has bettered human lives in various ways.

it's a basic Austrian principle.  let us not forget:

   "The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." — Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

  "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
 

Yes, he did. With a big Y-Combinator logo on the podium, mentioning bitcoin several times, and telling people to go build apps that facilitate exiting the current system.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that stuff like this is indicative of a greater trend of people (especially tech-savvy people, obv) viewing government more as a product that requires competitive iteration and customer mobility than as some inevitable and immutable entity in and an of itself. The speaker made a great point; namely that mobile tech is not about location-based-apps, but about making location *irrelevant*.

The way that technology enables both the theoretical decentralization of services and the building of non-location-centric communities implies that traditional notions of patriotism and nationalism can become more aligned with people's natural way of life and ideology across physical boundaries. This is a big shift. Obviously philosophers have debated the nature of human interaction, ideology, and government for millenia, but technological interconnectedness really does open up a very wide range of new possibilities.

Interesting times, indeed.

I made my last purchase at just North of $2.00 which was the low-water mark on Tradehill.  For me it was not 'discipline' as much as 'frustration' and 'stubbornness'.  I would have made one more double-down at around $1.50's, but we didn't get there.

To me Bitcoin was obviously not a simple match for Ponzi (though there were and are some shallow similarities), and then, just like now, I could see an argument for enormous utility and the arithmetic for much higher valuations.  I actually considered myself to be playing a valuable supporting role simply by soaking up liquidity in those dark days.

The bolded part is exactly what the concept of Phyles deals with in Neal Stephensons novel The Diamond Age. Recommended reading if you're interested in that stuff - which you seem to be the way you wrote that post. This was originally one of the things which drew my attention to Bitcoin as I realized how Bitcoin can help facilitate the creation of such things as non-location-centric communities as you put it.

This is very interesting and something I haven't considered before, but makes a lot of sense in light of all the VC focus recently.

The technology industry constantly builds upon previous technologies to create new concepts not even initially considered. Bitcoin as a technology platform works very well in this view, similar to how the basic internet protocol has spawned whole new industries.

As the technology industry relies on Bitcoin more and more, they will fight to ensure it's survival.