Part of my family came from East Germany, a socialist country. No one in their right mind or who has had this experience would ever want to spend a single day in such perverse conditions of ignorance, of artificial stultification by an encroaching state. The free market is the most sophisticated vehicle that human civilization has yet invented and implemented to articulate individual will and promote free decision-making. So far, nothing better is in sight. And no: the values that Bitcoin implies are not congruent with those that socialism entails. It's the opposite. [...]