As Director of Cato's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, given your skepticism of Bitcoin, and presumably other cryptocurrencies, which monetary alternatives are you excited about?
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There's a pathological one-way version of these "rules" where authority figures in mass media and at DC "think" tanks get to ridicule the unwashed masses ("deplorables"), but the unwashed masses must be "civil" (i.e. servile). We don't play by those "rules". Deal with it.
P.S. if you are so worried about civil discourse, you would do well to focus your ire on Nouriel Roubini, whose comments have been astronomically more obnoxious than anything said on this thread.
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I'm no fan of Roubini's: https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=841 … And I agree that he's uncivil. But I haven't crossed swords with him, and I certainly have never apologized for his manners.
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I also have consistently rejected claims like Roubini's to the effect that Bitcoin is a scam, or Ponzi scheme, or bubble, or whatever. I have my doubts about Bitcoin becoming a dominant money. I hope I'm wrong. But I am not of that ilk.
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But have you criticized his pathological tone and his barbaric incivility? Show us where you've done that or GTFO and don't come back until you have done so.
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Unfortunate that someone who has written so fondly of Bitcoin, is subject to this.
@GeorgeSelgin if you haven't seen this, it's worth looking at: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bit-block-boom/2019/how-to-meme-bitcoin-to-the-moon/ … maximalism is very deliberate, they play to win, and it works. Not worth taking personally. -
I don't think that rudeness is part of any strategy of playing to win. I think it hurts the case for Bitcoin, for freedom in currency, and, most of all, for libertarianism generally. Believe me, if it disgusts me (and it does), it discusses many more who haven't tried to engage.
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And your rudeness and incivility, and the choices you make in who to uncivilly attack and which conversations you choose to derail for supposed lack of civility, hurts the reputation of the Cato Institute as being either civilized or libertarian.
End of conversation
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