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Could the raise of anonymous and distributed services using bitcoin be the answer of people exasperated by government surveillance?


Bitcoin, from its inception, has had deep ties with radical libertarianism. Suspicion of the government is the raison d'être of bitcoin.

(though of course the software itself is completely ideologically neutral)




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