This thread of Menger and Bohm-Bawerk -> Mises -> Hayek -> Cryptographers, Hackers, Cypherpunks and Extropians -> Bitcoiners is picked up really well by Aaron van Wirdum in his 'Genesis Book'

This was a good listen!

Bitcoin Audible • Read_887 - A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins • Listen on Fountain

Nationalism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of a group with common cultural roots. Socialism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of a group with common income levels. Monarchy wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of one person. Etatism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of one group or entity. Every system of 'government' we have right now wants to appropriate what you own. They do not and cannot for the sake of survival, like that you own things. If such entities were indeed the source of order in society, the very least they would do is not steal. That this is considered a utopian expectation is a great sign of the times we live in.

Excerpt from Hoppe's 'The Theory of Socialism and Capitalism': 'And in response to the various disincentives to work, and in particular to work in the “officially” controlled economy, there is also a tendency among East Germans to withdraw from public life and to stress the importance of privacy, the family, relatives, and personal friends and connections, significantly exceeding what is seen in the West.'

Balaji S on the Libertarian nature and character of the internet. Nostr solves 'the free speech problem' because it enables property rights in relays first, as diatjaf himself explained. Nostr is libertarian by design. It represents real advancement in the anarchic internet ecosystem. One of the best in this decade.