11-05-2021, 02:12 AM
(11-04-2021, 01:59 AM)ryo Wrote: (snip)I think you are correct, though I have to say that to many English speaking people the word anarchist is informally defined in the press not a set of anti-authoritarian political beliefs but has come to mean people who riot, break stuff, and burn things because they love violence and chaos but hate order.
Because while the more libertarian/anarchist people would be more likely to use cryptocurrency legal or not, but the entire rest of the world would refuse to even look into it until the government tells them to do so.(snip)
I think the popularity of crypto is also due to an early introduction to the concept in Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by popular sci-fi/speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon