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Karim
Karim
11 years ago

YAY! I have been hitting refresh every 5 minutes for the past 3 hours 🙂

LJH
LJH
11 years ago

Good grief, what a pain in the ass! Thanks a bazillon for saving it for us.

rehbein, scott a.
rehbein, scott a.
11 years ago

thanks for your dedication jack. I appreciate it more than you know

Wolf
Wolf
11 years ago

The reason that government cannot run or fix anything is because Congress is the opposite of Progress! 🙂

Jake
Jake
11 years ago

Oh wow. I would have never known. I wondered why it sounded like Jeffery cut out a bit. Great save.

As for bitcoin, alright, I’ll try it. I still think that they need to implement the merkle tree so that the blockchain can be truncated before it can be fully functional… The block chain is what, 4 gigs? its going to keep increasing and that old data can probably be cut out, but the devs havent pulled the trigger…

Jake
Jake
11 years ago

Here’s a fairly good explanation of what needs to happen. http://codinginmysleep.com/ultraprune-in-plain-english/

Jesse
Jesse
11 years ago

Great show today, Jack. What a great education on the full scale assault on government control that is ongoing under everyone’s noses (and most have no idea). It was great. I will be signing up for Bitcoin on principle alone at this point. Homeschooling – check. Homesteading – Check. Bitcoin – Check. Love this show!

Sean Brennan
Sean Brennan
11 years ago

I listened to the show, but I’m kinda stupid. What exactly is liberty.me?

Francis
Francis
11 years ago

Who are these big government lovers around here? I scan these comment sections semi-regularly (could have missed something), I listen to %90 of the shows (free, thank you), and I just can’t ever remember anyone supporting ‘big’ government in this community?

Is there another forum I am missing to this show?

Why the hell would anyone listen to this show, at all, if they thought big government was going to save or help them? How would they even find the show?

Or maybe, this is a sentiment from a man who envisions near to or zero-government as cool; thus blaspheming anything that recognizes a plausible use for a governing ‘authority;’ Yes, some can see that the current and historical authority structure is based in psychopathy, and still appreciate that ‘authority’ is where all knowledge and advancement has come from.

Lets cheer our elders (for what most are worth today), yet, curse authority… Is that what they call an oxy ‘moron?’

Bit-coin: Maybe I have missed this as well; but does anyone consider that ‘they’ want to maneuver us towards a cashless society? I support the idea, but NOBODY really knows whos behind this. And anti-bitcoin media could very well be instigation propaganda…?

Nice on the re-record! Swing on that spiral!

This was a “comment” with a few questions. I will not be debating here.

Going Galt
Going Galt
11 years ago
Reply to  Francis

While not technically proven, there is compelling evidence Nick Szabo is the creator of bitcoin.

Jarrod
Jarrod
11 years ago

This got me pretty excited about bitcoin.

If I were leaving the country, how could I get my bitcoin exchanged into the new local currency without gov’t oversight? Would I got to a currency exchange of sorts? Could the local govt of my local shut those down?

Going Galt
Going Galt
11 years ago
Reply to  Jarrod

Exchanges are the weak point. You could simply spend away your bitcoins. Or, exchange in person. For people rich in bitcoins, those options can be problematic though.

Jarrod
Jarrod
11 years ago
Reply to  Going Galt

That is along the lines of what I was thinking. Governments could make Bitcoin very difficult to use by outlawing their conversion into local currency. At least, that’s how it seems at first glance.

Jack, your thoughts?

Bruce Drukker
Bruce Drukker
11 years ago

Great show Jack! The whole idea of bitcoin is really starting to crystallize. I might be ready to commit to 5% on this one.

tido
tido
11 years ago

Jack your really misleading people with this latest bitcoin celebration your having, read the article on washingtons blog, Bitcoin:revolutionary game changer- or trojan horse. Bit coin is great for many reasons but has many flaws as well. First in my mind is digital currency plays right into the governments hand as they still can track and trace or hack anything on the internet. Next what happens if communications are off line and everybody has a great deal of money in bitcoin. Please address these issues and others raised in the article above.

Richard J
Richard J
11 years ago

They’re either researching the ass off, or has begone-d!

Kern Lunde
Kern Lunde
11 years ago

Okay, maybe I’m confused. I went to liberty.me and signed up for updates, and got redirected to an ematicsolutions.com website? Did liberty.me get hacked, or is this what I’m supposed to see? There doesn’t appear to be any ‘site’ to go to for information or anything. Am I just being dense, or am I missing something?

Kern Lunde
Kern Lunde
11 years ago
Reply to  Kern Lunde

Okay, I just discovered the value of listening to the ENTIRE episode! I posted my question just a few minutes before finishing the episode, and I realized at the end that it’s in beta and will be up in the next 30 days or so. /facepalm

Matthew N Gooseneck
Matthew N Gooseneck
11 years ago

I really like Jeff tucker. He seems really interesting. I have seen him on the Capitol Account show on RT. And some Mises vids on YouTube.

Grey Mas
Grey Mas
11 years ago

Incredible interview. It was as though the two of you were sitting in a cafe just having a stimulating conversation over coffee. I’m a huge fan of Jeffrey Tucker and highly recommend his talks and articles on mises.org for anyone not familiar with him. His article on intellectual property is one of my favorites. Great job Jack!

Grey Mas
Grey Mas
11 years ago

Wow!
I would have never know if you didn’t point it out.

Thank you for a great job.

DanielBoone
DanielBoone
11 years ago

The US goverment sponsored email service never really existed

However such a thing has long been proposed as a way to save the dying USPS.

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/post_office.html

Ironically the reasoning behind it is that it would more private and secure than free email service…you know because the government would never spy on your email like Google does(thats is a sarcastic statement btw).

There is even more sinster the Inspector General of the USPS has proposed using at state sponsored email service as a cloud server saying quote..”a kinda of federal safe deposit box for sensitive personal information”

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/5-ways-save-post-office

Australia and Israel already have implemented state sponsored email services which they claim to use for offical government communiques (woohoo! government propaganda spam in your inbox!).

You seem incredulous in the interveiw that anyone would be dumb enough to sign up for such a thing…but as noted in the popsci article above hundreds of thousands of Finns have gleefuly paid their goverment to open up their regular mail and convert it to PDFs.

Also if the US government did do this it would probably be mandated in some way…such as requiring all tax documents and such to be only available threw this system.

You know to save the government money…imagine the savings if the government could go paperless!(more sarcasm).

PowersProduce
PowersProduce
11 years ago
Reply to  DanielBoone

After hearing mention of a USPS run email client I did some research as well and came up with two instances of a USPS email.

First in the 80’s there was E-COM.

Then in 2000 there was PosteCS.

Both were financial disasters, but they most definitely existed.

http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2013/09/postal-services-30-year-relationship-email

DanielBoone
DanielBoone
11 years ago

Sorry for the editing errors in the above post. I am still getting used to this tablet thingy and its finicky touch screen and tiny (for my big fingers) keyboard.

Amy
Amy
11 years ago

This interview was so fun to listen to! Impressed with the editing, as well. Jeffrey’s enthusiasm and manner of speaking reminds me very strongly of Paul Wheaton.

To those with bitcoins: Remember that since you are now responsible for protecting your own money, back up your wallet! If you lose that there’s no way to get it back.

Richard J
Richard J
11 years ago

Is it just me, or does Jeffrey talk like Alan Watts?

Les
Les
11 years ago
Reply to  Richard J

I thought he sounded like Paul Wheaton.

Richard J
Richard J
11 years ago
Reply to  Les

I can see that. Yeah.

Les
Les
11 years ago

Interesting discussion. I like the Costa Rica idea most.

Chris DeJoe
Chris DeJoe
11 years ago

Jack this guy said something that always concerned me about bit coin, “…they have been talking about taking the government seized bitcoins out of the blck chain…” Or something to that effect.

So if programmers are capable of manipulating the currency in anyway then can’t this tool then be once again abused by a powerful minority? I get how it is supposed to work but if this one done rightly or wrongly there then is door open, a power out there, akin to a president using a precedent to increase their power.

I do not understand why Jeffery was laughing about it when it would actually contradict his entire platform. This is a reason I do not trust groups of people. Just a bit of power and they start rationalizing abusing that power. Would it be great to hurt the FED? Yes. But the communists also had nice sounding ideals that they quickly betrayed when they gained power.

I would love to know what you think about this all Jack especially concerning the bitcoin stuff.

Btw seeing how Russia is dealing with bitcoin shows you the threat this currency provides to monolithic power structures. Their currency is much more fragile than our own and the wealth is much more concentrated and controlled.

tido
tido
11 years ago

Hey jack bad choice of words on my part was at work when i wrote the comment was in a hurry. Listen i dont think you were misleading people on purpose or anything i think you have alot of integrity. Its just this when someone like you who has a lot of loyal listeners gets super exicited about something like bitcoin they tend to buy into it completely without fully thinking it through. Thats what i meant by ‘misleading’. I see it with alex jones listeners all the time he sais nascent iodine is the greatest and they immediately think they need it and buy it. I just felt in that particular interview you didnt qualify the possible cons of bitcoin enough even though you have on other shows. Just saying people really trust you cause your a straight shooter and they might go overboard cause of all your enthusiasm. I was one of these people at one time thats why im very causious and considerate of these issues. Meant no disrespect and misleading was a poor choice of words i apologize.

joe
joe
11 years ago

Jeffrey Tucker!!?

Wow!

When are you having Tom Woods?

joe
joe
11 years ago

That’s too bad. I’ll have to nag him on Facebook.

Kayzonara
Kayzonara
11 years ago

The term the interviewee is looking for around the 1:05 mark is “renaissance man” 🙂

AJ Anderson
AJ Anderson
11 years ago

I know Jack would have said something if he weren’t on vacation. For those interested in Liberty.me it launched a few days ago… and featured a number of articles including one from Josiah.