Politics is not a way to solve problems; learning how to increase one’s self-sovereignty is. The policies politicians make are just words on paper; they have no power over the sovereign individual. The sovereign individual doesn’t get sucked into those games and lives their life as they wish. And no, they don’t laugh in the politicians’ faces; that would be giving them attention and they don’t deserve any.

“Freedom can run a monetary system as superbly as it runs the rest of the economy. Contrary to many writers, there is nothing special about money that requires extensive governmental dictation.“ Murray Rothbard

Bitcoin is a successful implementation of true anarcho-capitalism, something Rand didn't support as practically implementable, because cyberspace in which it lives didn't exist. However, its consequences spill over to meatspace.

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

It's funny how people use Satoshi's anonymity against bitcoin and say "Stay away from assets you don't know the creator of." A brief look at the price of gold in USD over the decades shows that people are rather keen on storing their wealth in things they don't know who created.

"Money laundering is beautiful", a talk by Giacomo Zucco