Erik Vorhees (to Buzzfeed):
“I trade [BTC] often, just not for USD. I don’t want it. Traditional currency is garbage…”
ADDED: Bitcoin super-gravity sucks in Foseti, AoS. … Jim.
ADDED: A surprisingly reasonable Bitcoin article at the BBC site (with Hayek given the last word).
Peter A. Taylor contributes this gem to the comments thread of Foseti’s recent democracy round-up:
Washington is not the dark heart of a pure nation. It is the dark heart of a rotting nation. That’s why the Dark Enlightenment is so dark.
Once Egypt goes down, I’m not seeing how it ever gets up again. It can’t feed itself, or do anything else recognizably productive. Mostly it lives off aesthetic capital inherited from the pharoahs. What exactly is it supposed to build a future from?
ADDED: Judith Miller on sprung Egypt.