Students of the Austrian school endure the discipline of praxis, a harsh master which keeps us as far away as possible from being "fanatics."
OTOH, anarcho-socialists, with their feverish quixotic fantasies of abolishing the universal institutions of the State and private property, are the very definition of "fanatic."
Bitcoin will break the chains of central banking by requiring where appropriate such institutions to be honest and at all times provably solvent.
Bitcoin's blockchain technology has also delivered in the form of Monero near-perfect privacy, which is indeed a Liberist wet dream made real.
If you had any awareness of the cypherpunk milieu from which Nick Szabo/Satoshi Nakamoto emerged, you wouldn't indulge yourself in daydreams in which they are even remotely friendly towards Black Flag buffoonery like anarcho-socialism.
Enjoy the rest of your sophomore year. Uni is good times for sure!
I'm not denying the influence of the cypherpunk movement on bitcoin and Satoshi, and even though I admit it is likely, actually it is not clear at all whether Satoshi and Nick Szabo are the same person/collective or not, but I guess it is not really relevant, people can change their minds.
I know that cryptonote is taking anonymity to the extreme, but isn't that pretty much already possible with cash (obviously not considering the practical advantages of digital money)? Instead public register of transaction with initial but not definitive anonimty without central authority was not possible before Bitcoin, if Satoshi was such a liberist, why didn't he create Cryptonote in the first place? If Bitcoin is simply a step leading to cryptonote (but in fact its contraray) and a prototype, why release it?
Also I didn't say that every follower of the austrian school is a fanatic, but here in the cryptocurrency environment those are the ones who are the most fervent. By the way, to be clear, I refer to socialism in a marxist way, it is not basic private property that needs to be abolished, rather private property intended as capital stolen by lobbyists and capitalists from the workers. Instead, talking about anarchy, sadly you are right, it is a nice dream, but indeed a dream, it would require human beings to be flawless to work.
PS: you got another thing right, I am an university student. I've heard many people telling me that growing old makes you shift from a socialist and altruist point of view to a more liberist and individualist one. I don't know if it will be the same for me, probably yes, but to me it looks an awful lot like a war between poor and poorer. The system makes you hate each other, makes you think that the others just want to steal from you your hard earned money, and it enjoys itself watching the show while eating popcorns. Makes you think that everyone is equal, that everyone started from the same point, and if you have more money/success/wealth it is just because you are better than the others (or you are favored by the gods, if we want to go back to good old calvinism), and they deserve no mercy for their idleness. Instead I think that life is not a fair race. Some start far away from the finishing line, some start very close. Some have long legs, some have short legs. You may finish first and be proud, but if you only took the time to look back, you would see that you just run a couple of meters. You may finish last, and waste your life trying to figure out what is wrong in you, being blamed for your inferiority, ignoring the fact that everyone else started already ahead. You may kick your opponent and make him fall because the public tells you to. In the end, all your medals will not follow you into the grave. The only important thing was the race itself, enjoying it. You wasted your time trying to build distance between you and the other runners, running as fast as you could, fearing that they might surpass you. And why? Because someone who doesn't even take part to the race, loves watching you fight and sells for profit your spilled blood told you to. If only you had realized the others were as frightened, manipulated, misled and confused as you! It would have been much better to walk slowly together towards the finishing line, helping each other. Justice, not equality. Am I really that naive?
