Cathy Reisenwitz: "Why a Free Society Needs a Free Money"
On Saturday, October 6, Cathy Reisenwitz spoke on why a free society needs free money. Cathy serves as a D. C. -based writer and political commentator, working at Reason Magazine. She is Editor in Chief of Sex and the State, is a Young Voices Associate and writes regularly for Doublethink magazine and Thoughts on Liberty. Her writing has appeared in the....
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The idea that Bitcoin and crypto-currency is somehow unrelated to the social would have to rest upon the contention that concerns like access to credit, global poverty and oppressive regimes are not social issues. On the contrary, there is nothing more social than a voluntarily transaction. And giving more people worldwide access to mutually beneficial exchange is one of the most important social issues a system could take on. Cathy Reisenwitz, editor at Young Voices and chief blogger at Sex and the State, wrote the above lines in a piece for Bitcoin Magazine in February. Her writing and....
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