I've lost count of the number of times I've seen Tulip Mania invoked to trash Bitcoin, so it was pretty galling to learn, via Hoppe's "Democracy: The God That Failed" that the bubble was fuelled by - you guessed it - the inflation of the money supply.
This has to be a new record for a populist selling out.
One of these days people are going to have to wake up to the fact that there is no political solution for what ails our societies.