I personally appreciated Taaki's dwelling on more important philosophical issues vs. just trying to pump Bitcoin.
It reminded me a bit of when Brito was on Napolitano's show on Fox. Napoplitano was practically cumming at the thought of skipping out of paying taxes and Brito had to bring him down to earth.
I feel it is great when the Bitcoin people appear to be the sane one, although I suspect I am in the minority as is often the case. Admittedly, it is a rather hollow victory to appear to be the sane one on Keiser's show (which I follow religiously, I might add.)
I wouldn't ask him to pump it. I would ask him to face it head on and say something along the lines of "Look, it's not a magic money machine. It is very good at nonlocal value transfers, but is currently very volatile. There are also security issues we are working on that are not released yet. I would keep an eye on it as an investment vehicle, but I wouldn't bet more than you can afford to lose."
The fact is, the average device is insecure, and until we have split key support the more valuable bitcoins become, the higher the risk of high value thefts.
I will concur with your assessment to some extent. But it is possible that Taaki's life and world view don't revolve exclusively around Bitcoin so I don't think that he has an obligation to dwell only on that subject. Who knows what sort of preparation was involved for Keiser's show. The rest of that episode revolved mostly around SOPA after all. Though Keiser did clearly want to talk Bitcoin I suppose.
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I watched it again, this time in real time on maxkeiser.com (RT's streaming sucks.)
Taaki gave pretty thoughtful answers to most of the questions that Keiser actually asked, and I found his thoughts on these things to be interesting (though largely old-hat to me.)
Keiser did pick up the ball to 'pump' Bitcoin near the end, but unfortunately, most of his info was between wrong and dead wrong. But it sounded good in a marketing sort of way (e.g., 'completely anonymous') so I guess that is enough to make most people happy.
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For those Libertarian types who took pride in skipping Max and Stacey's info about SOPA, I would suggest that you might go back and check it out. Some of the info was pretty worthwhile. It will be bad for all of us, but particularly Libertarians, if/when we lose this set of battle.
