Utopians and Magical Thinkers - A Response to Alex Payne via Karoli
In her recent post on Crooks and Liars, Karoli, whose pieces I've been reading for some time and generally find well done and intelligent, unfortunately chose to pick up on and excerpt some foolishness from Alex Payne's recent - and rather unimportant - screed against Bitcoin. Payne's piece is particularly vapid and one I didn't think worthy of response,....
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