Undisciplined

I want to, as well. What I've found is that the desire to know ultimately doesn't matter. They're equally dead, regardless of cause :/

I know I always want to know, when these things happen, what the cause of death is. So here's what the article says:

> Brian Doherty, a longtime Reason senior editor and the leading historian of the libertarian movement, was found dead Friday morning after a fall the night before in Battery Yates park along the San Francisco Bay. He was 57.

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I didn't know Brian personally, having never met him (I don't think?), but edited a fair number of his articles. Tragedy nonetheless.

I'll share this Bitcoin-relevant extract from the magazine eulogy:

Spelunking in subcultures both libertarian and whimsical led to a lot of early discoveries that the normies only sussed out later. Doherty profiled New Hampshire's Free State Project way back in 2004, caught Seasteaders on their then-rise in 2009, and 

 Though, as he ruefully admitted later, he knew about the groundbreaking crypto currency as early as July 2010 yet somehow neglected to cash in.

"Had I shelled out, say, $2,000 on this innovative, anti-inflationary currency even a lazy six weeks after I was introduced to it," he wrote, "today I would be sitting on 28,571 bitcoins, the equivalent at press time of over $212 million in cash." More like $2 billion now, but who's counting?

Such stories are, we all know, kind of ridiculous. You didn't 

 the knowledge, conviction, or circumstances in 2010 -- let alone 2013 -- to have acquired $2,000 worth of BTC... 

 to hold on to (all of) it until the present day. Still, nice lil quote and nice lil reminesence.

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Politics_And_Law

Here's some tragic news out of the *Reason*-sphere.

I didn't know Brian personally, having never met him (I don't think?), but edited a fair number of his articles. Tragedy nonetheless.

I'll share this Bitcoin-relevant extract from the magazine eulogy:

> Spelunking in subcultures both libertarian and whimsical led to a lot of early discoveries that the normies only sussed out later. Doherty profiled New Hampshire's Free State Project way back in 2004, caught Seasteaders on their then-rise in 2009, and **started covering Bitcoin in 2013.** Though, as he ruefully admitted later, he knew about the groundbreaking crypto currency as early as July 2010 yet somehow neglected to cash in.

> "Had I shelled out, say, $2,000 on this innovative, anti-inflationary currency even a lazy six weeks after I was introduced to it," he wrote, "today I would be sitting on 28,571 bitcoins, the equivalent at press time of over $212 million in cash." More like $2 billion now, but who's counting?

Such stories are, we all know, kind of ridiculous. You didn't *have* the knowledge, conviction, or circumstances in 2010 -- let alone 2013 -- to have acquired $2,000 worth of BTC... *nor* to hold on to (all of) it until the present day. Still, nice lil quote and nice lil reminesence.