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falkvinge
@falkvinge Jun 11, 2017, 8:42 PM UTC

Right on the Money: Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry six years ago when people called me raving mad

In 2011, I went all-in into bitcoin. As I described in a blog post at the time, I took all my savings and my entire credit line and put it into the fledgling currency, once I had realized its disrupt…

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falkvinge
@falkvinge Nov 2, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

File-Sharing Can Be Legalized Immediately, While Complying With All Treaties

There’s consistent disinformation from the copyright industry that even if a national parliament wanted to legalize file-sharing, it is not permitted to do so because of international treaties. This…

141 upvotes 9 replies $3.63
falkvinge
@falkvinge Sep 1, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

A Simplified Taxless State: A Proposal (part three of three)

In this three-part series, I'm going to show how a state can be a pure market actor and not require taxation. The state will still have an income - cynics would call it taxes under any other name - b…

337 upvotes 1 downvotes 54 replies $144.60
falkvinge
@falkvinge Aug 23, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

A Simplified Taxless State: A Proposal (part two of three)

In this three-part series, I'm going to show how a state can be a pure market actor and not require taxation. The state will still have an income - cynics would call it taxes under any other name - b…

432 upvotes 1 downvotes 51 replies $286.00
falkvinge
@falkvinge Aug 18, 2016, 7:16 PM UTC

A Simplified Taxless State: A Proposal (part one of three)

In this three-part series, I'm going to show how a state can be a pure market actor and not require taxation. The state will still have an income - cynics would call it taxes under any other name - b…

371 upvotes 74 replies $142.29
falkvinge
@falkvinge Aug 9, 2016, 6:28 PM UTC

The Wealth of a Nation: Why Capitalism Works

Politicians and policymakers don't understand where wealth comes from. They don't understand the very basics of why capitalism works, they don't understand how the wealth of a nation can increase - a…

406 upvotes 94 replies $447.46
falkvinge
@falkvinge Aug 8, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

The founder of the Pirate Party joins to share liberty ideas with Steem

Hi! I'm Rick Falkvinge, and during business hours, I'm Head of Privacy at the VPN company Private Internet Access, which ttobmk is the only VPN company to have court records prove we don't keep any l…

817 upvotes 184 replies $1741.80
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@falkvinge Aug 8, 2016, 5:10 PM UTC

It was never about capitalism vs communism - it was always about centralized vs decentralized

Both capitalism and communism have decentralized voluntaryism as their promised endgames, but both ideals corrupt in practice to centralized rent-seeking and use of lethal force. Thus, society was ne…

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