Comment on Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currencyparentComments−gojomo12yVanishingly unlikely. Very different politics and economics. (Swartz: very Krugmanesque in views.) Even considering the referenced Swartz write-up after thinking about Bitcoin...http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko...you can see his thoughts were more focused on censorship-resistance (a major interest of Swartz) than on stateless money.
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Vanishingly unlikely. Very different politics and economics. (Swartz: very Krugmanesque in views.) Even considering the referenced Swartz write-up after thinking about Bitcoin...
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
...you can see his thoughts were more focused on censorship-resistance (a major interest of Swartz) than on stateless money.