Category: Aggregated

Last month Alt-Market.com founder Brandon Smith warned that Bitcoin may not be all that it’s cracked up to be in terms of its purported anonymity: For years, one of the major original selling points of bitcoin was that it was “anonymous.” It always surprised me that so many people in the liberty movement bought into this scam. Surely after the revelations exposed by Edward Snowden and organizations like Wikileaks, it is utterly foolish to believe that anything in the digital world is truly “anonymous.” The feds have been proving there is no anonymity, even in bitcoin, for some time, as multiple arrests using bitcoin tracking have indeed occurred … Continue reading →

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“Who are you?” – The Caterpillar, in Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland As the American franchise of Western Civilization tumbles into the dust-bin of history, I sometimes wonder whether – were it possible – the ghosts of Jefferson, Franklin, Sam Adams, and other “Founding Fathers,” might be willing to engage in a conversation over what they helped to create. There has probably been no comparable group of such intelligent, well-educated, creative, prescient minds that has tried to design the foundations of a free and orderly political society. These men were the best for which any nation could hope. The first question I … Continue reading →

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One of my many regrets is that when I was young and on the tennis circuit, I played as a man. I had a crush on Margaret Osborne duPont, an older player who won numerous Wimbledon and U.S. national doubles titles, and the very pretty Karen Hantz, a Wimbledon singles winner, not to mention the Buding sisters from Germany. Had I thought of it back then—I am talking about the late ’50s—I could have been showering with them, not to mention competing against them. Instead, I had my you-know-what kicked by Nicola Pietrangeli, Rafael Osuna, Frank Froehling, Roy Emerson, and … Continue reading →

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The decline of a nation’s money often parallels the decline of the nation.  Rome’s money stands as the classic example; Great Britain’s pound is the contemporary example. In Rome’s final days, its coins were debased, minted with reduced amounts of gold and silver.  Consequently, the people astutely took note of which coins contained the greater amounts of gold or silver, but the Senate took typical government action.  It made it illegal for a merchant to ask a buyer with which coins he was going to pay. Fast forward to today. Time to buy old US gold coins This year, for … Continue reading →

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