Ep. 57 Bitcoin: Objections and Replies
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Erik Voorhees joins Tom to discuss recent developments surrounding Bitcoin, and replies to objections to Bitcoin. Check out Erik's article "Bitcoin: The Libertarian Introduction," and follow him on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I don't feel free, don't you, dad. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.2 | An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:46.8 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:51.9 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It is Wednesday, December 11, |
| 1:00.0 | 2013, and today we are talking Bitcoin once again. Bitcoin is all over the news, and as interest |
| 1:07.5 | in Bitcoin has grown, so has the number of critics and naysayers. So I brought |
| 1:13.7 | on sort of our resident expert on the subject, my friend Eric Voorhees, who's been involved in |
| 1:21.0 | Bitcoin, perhaps from the very beginning, I think, certainly for a good long time and has |
| 1:25.9 | written an awful lot about it. And I want to |
| 1:28.7 | play devil's advocate with him today. So today's episode is not really Bitcoin 101. If you want to |
| 1:34.4 | know what Bitcoin is, what the basic ins and outs of it are, I strongly recommend an interview I |
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