I think coercive taxation is a form of human slavery and should be abolished.

Moderns: yes but maybe the map could be the territory if we force everyone to pretend

I was precise in what I said I think they are interpreting things in an unscientific way If a certain mathematical relationship is useful for making predictions, great You can still interpret that relationship in an unscientific way

One thing that's always bothered me about modern physics is that they don't adhere to the scientific method in the interpretation of the most basic, repeatable experiments. The scientific method is supposed to be you observe something, you hypothesize (guess) what's going on, then you conduct experiments to try to disprove the guess. Experiments don't ever prove the guess correct, and competing experiments that conflict with multiple guesses rule out all the guesses. So the double-slit and single-slit experiments prove that light is NEITHER a particle (in the sense scientists use the term) NOR a wave. One experiment rules out one, the other experiment rules out the other. Instead of concluding that both guesses were wrong because they were contradicted by evidence, scientists decided both experiments proved contradictory theories correct and that light is a wave AND a particle. The scientifically rigorous explanation is that light is NEITHER.

Proof of work is not a source of value. The labor theory of value is wrong. Making it machine labor instead of human labor does nothing to redeem it.

Here's a good example of a sudoku technique I use which I haven't seen discussed. If the highlighted square at the bottom was a 6 or a 9, it would make it so the 6s and 9s in the bottom two squares could be switched around and still solve the puzzle. Because a valid sudoku puzzle has only one solution, the highlighted square must be a 4.

Not scarce ones, no. If Bitcoin is the physical hardware, it doesn't have all these wonderful properties. If Bitcoins are the entries in computer memory, they may or may have these wondeful properties but are not scarce. If Bitcoins are the things to which the ledger entries refer, they don't exist. One way you can see that Bitcoiners don't think clearly is that they refer to the network, the code, the ledger, and the ledger units all as "Bitcoin". If you make a firm distinction between the ledger and the ledger entries and the ledger units you see immediately that's it's totally absurd to give up your time and energy for these ledger entries.

So Bitcoin is not the currency?

Chill baby chill

. Some people would rather risk the shot than the bug. Generally I'd rather risk the bug than the shot. Also, does the shot even work?

A bird is its feathers, beak, AND legs (as well as various other parts). There is no part of a Bitcoin. The ledger entries just refer to nothing, not to a lot of little parts that come together to make a thing.

The whitepaper actually says that Bitcoin is a digital signature

"Bitcoin is a distributed software protocol that allows for transfer of value using a currency..." So either the definition is circular (not a definition) or Bitcoin is not the currency (or both)