Satoshi Nakamoto says bitcoin is ‘very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly’. Nassim Taleb says, ‘Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.’ Kevin Dowd says it ‘raises profound issues of an emerging spontaneous social order . . . a crypto-anarchic society in which there is no longer any government role in the monetary system’. Jeff Garzik, a bitcoin developer, calls it ‘the biggest thing since the internet – a catalyst for change in all areas of our lives’.
