₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #005: Anarchism ✊🏽
Details
We finally have the opportunity to also look into other than technological topics today, as intended with this series.
Ben Arc and others will join us, and we'll dive into some political and economic theory, which may become very practical and relevant in the coming decades. Many expect that the success of Bitcoin will lead to profound changes about how society operates.
Notable participants today include:
Ben Arc aka BTCSocialist
And others.
Libertarianism is popular among Bitcoiners, but where does this school of thought come from, what does it mean, and is there even an agreement about the meaning?
Ben recently had an open letter exchange with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about his opinion Bitcoin that we can also discuss.
- https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/an-open-letter-to-yanis-varoufakis-about-bitcoin
- https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-ally-reply-to-ben-arc/
More material / reading list:
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Take the test and tell us about your result and your opinions: https://www.politicalcompass.org/
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"The father of Anarchism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
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American/"capitalist" interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
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The roots of Bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism
Format: Presentation / Debate / Socratic Seminar https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar
Language: English
Target Audience: Some knowledge about Bitcoin as well as background in or strong curiosity for political theory or economics is recommended. Skeptics highly welcome!
Streaming/Recording: Yes
Food and Drinks: None
Location: Online, Jitsi Meet via Freifunk Munich (simply works in your browser or with the app, easy to use, libre, open source, free as in beer, free as in speech, independently hosted, non-commercial, no data collection, no registration). More info: https://ffmuc.net/wiki/doku.php?id=knb:meet-en
In the meantime, you can try out the video conferencing software to test your setup here: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
Timetable:
(19:00 Announcement of the link to the video call, resp. the name of the room, and the link to the youtube stream in the comment section below. This should also trigger a reminder mail.)
20:00 Rolling start, chime in, say hello, introduce yourself off-the-record if you want to, organizational stuff
20:15 Livestream starts, optional on-the-record introductions, start of the seminar
22:00 (roughly) Wrap-up time, Livestream ends, optional break-out sessions
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This is our new in-depth, no-nonsense seminar series Satoshi's 21, which will take place every 21st of a month in various different locations (hackspace, co-working space, conference room, or similar), or online if circumstances so require.
We'll have one or more selected topics concerning Bitcoin's technology, security, ongoing development, economics, monetary theory, or its societal and political impact. Some preparation work might be required from participants in order to make the most out of the seminar.
Satoshi's 21 stands for:
- Every 21st of a month so that weekdays rotate
- 21 participants is the targeted and ideal working group size, but we could be more, we could be fewer
- And of course: honoring Bitcoin's monetary supply of 21 hundred trillion sats!
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₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #005: Anarchism ✊🏽