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  • ggerrein

    @adam

    @ggerrein For example, some scholar who is specialized in Nozick or Rawls form of economic justice would make for an interesting discussion I believe.

    I don't even know what either of those things are, can you ELI5?

    John Rawls wrote sort what is considered one of the most important works of political philosophy of the twentieth century called "A Theory of Justice." It starts out with this premise of "the veil of ignorance" and extrapolates out how society (and economies) should be structured. The idea of the veil of ignorance is that let's say you had no idea what place in society you may hold, how would you structure things that no matter which situation you were born into, it would be as fair as possible. It was a call for liberalism. Shortly thereafter, a colleague at Harvard wrote a refutation of this, his name was Robert Nozick. Some consider his book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" the bible of libertarianism. He has a few famous thought experiments in there, and all of them are in my opinion quite brilliant (my favorite is the Wilt Chamberlain example). So the ideas that these guys are talking about were important at an intellectual level, but prior to crypto-currency, to really move the needle in one way or the other (towards Rawls or Nozick's vision of perfection), you would need nothing short of a violent revolution. Now there is this intersection between ivory tower ideas and reality, and you possess the platform to join these two into a meaningful dialogue.

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  • jhowellesq

    @adam - It would be very interesting to hear something about tracing bitcoin in case of ownership disputes like in the Mt. Gox debacle. Thinking like the BK trustee, it is reasonable to expect that any coins lost/sold/transferred from those accounts should be traced. Can they be seized? What are the implications for the current potentially bona fide owners of those coins? Can they still be traced if run through a laundry? What would this mean to price and future of btc as a currency?

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  • optictopic

    I'd like to hear an interview with Mike Adams the Health Ranger owner of Naturalnews.com. He was very outspoken against bitcoin for years. Now recently he suggested that 5% of ones savings would be well spent on bitcoin. I'd like to know what his turning point was and why with this change of heart is he still not accepting bitcoin at his health website http://store.naturalnews.com/ ?

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  • Mutatu

    Maybe a joint podcast with Russ Roberts from EconTalk. He has been receptive to Bitcoin and has talked with Gavin Andresen a couple of times, also discussed Bitcoin with Marc Andreesen.

    I thought the last Russ Roberts interview with Gavin Andresen did not go so well. Gavin seemed a little jaded. Russ Roberts needs to get together with someone with your insights into where Bitcoin 2.0 may be going. This may be a long shot but Russ Roberts does have very large following.

    If you have not heard any of his podcasts they can be found here: http://www.econlib.org/cgi-bin/searchblogs.pl?blog=2&pgct=1&sortby=R&searchfield=P&datelist=0&query=Bitcoin&x=0&y=0&andor=and

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  • markcarlson

    How about a P2P Lending expert with an emphasis on poor credit lending?

    So many people were living with excellent credit until the housing collapse, and now have a short-sale or foreclosure tanking their FICA score. I think there is a large US market that is not able to take advantage of traditional finances, yet are still loyal customers.

    I would like to know how distributed markets can fill this need, both from a lender and a borrow POV.

    Thx

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  • dsmalone

    I would love to see an interview with Manuel Araoz @maraoz He created the site www.proofofexistence.com and is employed at bitpay. He lives in Argentina and the interview could be his views of bitcoin and the path to its acceptance in Argentina.

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  • pan2pan

    You forum need to support chinese character . I am not able to post chinese in the forum

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  • pairmike

    I'd like to hear an interview dedicated to Coinpowers.

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  • slim45

    My vote is for Jonathan Levin of coinometrics.com. He seems like a real expert on the bitcoin economy, and I find some of his views really surprising.

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  • sockman

    Mike Hearn, recently won the 90k thousand dollar bounty to make a decentralized replacement for the Bitcoin Foundation. (Lighthouse)

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