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February 22, 2014, 6:25pm EST
Bitcoin maverick Cody Wilson calls out Libertarians on their home turf
Cody Wilson created the Liberator 3-D printed gun and is developing Dark Wallet, a Bitcion wallet intended to store and send the encrypted currency outside of government regulation. Michael del Castillo
The UpTake: Cody Wilson, a key 3D and Bitcoin figure who is working on ways to keep the government's eyes away from tracking the currency, gets noticed at a forum for Libertarians and anarchists.
The man who created the Liberator 3-D printed gun is a bit of a folk hero among certain groups of Libertarians and anarchists. So when Cody Wilson called out his peers on stage at the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire earlier today, people took note.
On a panel called "Leading by Example: How principles of liberty have made technology what it is today," Wilson and his peers were asked what the people in the audience should do if he ended up arrested or dead. The 26-year-old entrepreneur and activist didn’t take kindly to the implication that he might become a martyr for the Libertarian cause. In his own way, he refused to answer the question.
“Why hold you up to something that you know you would shrink away from?’ he asked the moderator. “Is anyone prepared today to do the things that are required? Why aren’t we marching on the White House? Instead we’re circle jerking at a conference in New Hampshire.”
Attendees of the conference, which has largely focused on Bitcoin and other anti-regulation business ideas, applauded Wilson’s reaction.
In May of last year, Wilson release the Liberator gun, which was quickly downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Since then he’s partnered with Amir Taaki to create Dark Wallet, a Bitcion wallet intended to store and send the encrypted currency out of reach from the possible, and likely, Bitcoin regulations currency being discussed in New York and other states.
In a conversation after the event Wilson told me he didn’t want to be seen as hating on the conference generally speaking, but that he found the particular line of questioning self-indulgent, even though he respected the moderator.
Philip Boncer, consulting pharmaceutical engineer, and volunteer at the Forum said the purpose of the conference was to “gather fuel and resources to reach out elsewhere,” though he acknowledged that Libertarians, like anyone who adheres to a particular ideology, run the risk of getting caught up in talk instead of action.
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/wire/2014/02/22/cody-wilson-bitcoin-libertarians.html
Bitcoin maverick Cody Wilson calls out Libertarians on their home turf
Cody Wilson created the Liberator 3-D printed gun and is developing Dark Wallet, a Bitcion wallet intended to store and send the encrypted currency outside of government regulation. Michael del Castillo
The UpTake: Cody Wilson, a key 3D and Bitcoin figure who is working on ways to keep the government's eyes away from tracking the currency, gets noticed at a forum for Libertarians and anarchists.
The man who created the Liberator 3-D printed gun is a bit of a folk hero among certain groups of Libertarians and anarchists. So when Cody Wilson called out his peers on stage at the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire earlier today, people took note.
On a panel called "Leading by Example: How principles of liberty have made technology what it is today," Wilson and his peers were asked what the people in the audience should do if he ended up arrested or dead. The 26-year-old entrepreneur and activist didn’t take kindly to the implication that he might become a martyr for the Libertarian cause. In his own way, he refused to answer the question.
“Why hold you up to something that you know you would shrink away from?’ he asked the moderator. “Is anyone prepared today to do the things that are required? Why aren’t we marching on the White House? Instead we’re circle jerking at a conference in New Hampshire.”
Attendees of the conference, which has largely focused on Bitcoin and other anti-regulation business ideas, applauded Wilson’s reaction.
In May of last year, Wilson release the Liberator gun, which was quickly downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Since then he’s partnered with Amir Taaki to create Dark Wallet, a Bitcion wallet intended to store and send the encrypted currency out of reach from the possible, and likely, Bitcoin regulations currency being discussed in New York and other states.
In a conversation after the event Wilson told me he didn’t want to be seen as hating on the conference generally speaking, but that he found the particular line of questioning self-indulgent, even though he respected the moderator.
Philip Boncer, consulting pharmaceutical engineer, and volunteer at the Forum said the purpose of the conference was to “gather fuel and resources to reach out elsewhere,” though he acknowledged that Libertarians, like anyone who adheres to a particular ideology, run the risk of getting caught up in talk instead of action.
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/wire/2014/02/22/cody-wilson-bitcoin-libertarians.html
