Now, I must declare my bias from the outset, in that I am an early adopter of the cryptocurrency known as bitcoin. I have some investment (a few coins) in the currency itself, but an overwhelming loyalty and confidence in the concept of cryptocurrency and particularly in the bitcoin protocol, as a means of emancipation from the crippling failures of our debt based fiat economy and the tyrany of the greedy central banking cartels.

I think more and more, people are coming to learn that the nature of the money system we use as a legacy of a pre computer age, is horibly inadequate and even worse, it is controled and manipulated by an evil extortionist hireachy of elite warmonger/theives. See: MONEY AS DEBT ONE, TWO & THREE.
Back in 2010 there emerged a secrative geek, by the pseudonom of Satochi Nakamoto, who posted a whitepaper about bitcoin and introduced the world to the first decenteralised P2P (peer to peer) curency solution & payment system (bitcoin), to circumvent the nasty central banking cartels, who have been exploiting our money supply (by mutual virtual-manopolies), as well as goverments who permit the money supply, to be ever increasingly subjected to inflation and devaluation, which acts for them as a secret tax. It was pure genius. He solved the double spending problem by using distributed clocks, until then a pervasive engeneering anomaly. He understood the need for controled inflation tending towrds deflation, so he modeled bitcoin on an algorythm analogous to gold mining, wherin the supply of the comodity was built in to the protocol in such a way that it would diminish towards a finite limit (21 million bitcoins). In so doing he ensured bitcoin value would tend to increase due to scarcity (the opposite to what govt/banks do to fiat money).
I am, amongst other things (athiest, freetinker and secular humanist), a libertarian and proud advocate for the preservations of our freedoms, which world governments in this age are increasingly encroaching upon. Bitcoin stands as the most groundbreaking and revelutionary means of taking back the night; of circumventing authoritarian rule by emancipating control of wealth by the wealthy and of empowering the little guy.
I urge all free people to go fourth and embrace the argorist mode of free enterprise, by adopting cryptocurrency in one form or another. Ply your trade without being beholden to banks and governments. Stand up for what is free and just. Note that I'm not endorsing illegal activities or tax evasion. You can accept bitcoin and still declare your income and pay taxes. Nevertheless, governments will eventualy have to come to the table with a value proposition that benifits society, as there is nothing that they can do now, that prevents people trading without their consent and supervision. This currency revolution, forces them to change and become relevant. They will have to compete or be cut out of the loop. Again I don't endors you not paying taxes... but simply having the power not to do so has an unavoidable impact. It is a litle disapointing that the only mention I see of bitcoin / cryptocurrency on this board had to be the tired old warhorse about silkroad (where drugs can be bought online with bitcoin). You can think of bitcoin as digital cash; so yeah, ofcourse bitcoin can be used to buy drugs. ANY form of cash can be used to buy drugs even govt. fiat. You don't have to believe the BS that the elitists and FUD merchants, try to spindoctor cryptocurrency with. When you use bitcoin for the first time you will understand what real freedom feels like.
FWIW, bitcoin is a P2P technology that is not owned by anybody and relies not on any centeral authority, govt, or bank, but rather on the consensus of the crowd using it. It is also Open Source Software, so anybody can download, use, modify, contribute, distribute, and even fork it of into sub-variants (there are already numerous cryptocurrency variations). The ramifications of this cryptocurrency revolution, are trully astounding. It's bigger than the advent of the internet itself. It maybe more revolutionary than the invention of the printing press, or even written language. Sound a bit subversive? Well if the boot fits... All I can say is that something needed to be done. Do we need to be reminded of the global banking (sub-prime) colapse and subsequent bailout? Remember Cyprus? The banks can just stick their meat hooks into your loot and haul out whatever they like if the oppresive governments says it's OK. Then there's the cost of banking/transaction fees themselves which are pure shamefull robbery IMHO. Merchants using digital/online payment systems like PayPal (PoxPal) are beholden to even more charges. Then there are fraudulent reversals of transactions and cappricious use of rules to freeze accounts (like donations to wikileaks) etc. etc. Once a central authority get hold of the power to make our decisions and tell us what we can spend money on, or just flatly rip us off blind, there is no limit to the evil that can be imposed upon us.
I thought I might just let you all know that I am willing to give advice on how to use bitcoin and help wherever I can to advance the freedoms I believe we should all enjoy. Bitcoin can of course be used online. It's ideal for micropayments (virtualy no fees) donations, bounties and pledges. To that end (and as a demonstration of goodwill) I hereby pledge to donate 1 BTC (one bitcoin worth aprox $140 US) for division between the first and/or best of 10 posters to this thread (with a bitcoin address to send to), that I deem to be the best contributions to this discussion.
PS: To be eligable you will have to have been an existing memeber of this forum prior to this post.
PSS: I will update this thread with any other info, download and tutorial links as may be necicary. If you own a smart phone, then downloading a client/wallet app is the easiest way to get started. Just open 'google play' (or whatever you use to get apps from) and search for bitcoin. If you choose an app that handles QR codes, it makes things even easier. Post your bitcoin address or QR code with your comments or ask me to help if you have problems.

Regards Skep.
