Liberty on the Rocks: Bitcoins not Bombs

After a day of slaving my labor for The Man, I found myself with a refreshing drink of dark lager at the Bootlegger's Brewery. My favorite drinking club, Liberty on the Rocks, was hosting a Bitcoins not Bombs event. In spite of cooler weather, and a threat of rain, which remained fortunately unfulfilled, we amassed a numerous and eclectic crowd of folk. Plenty of newer faces showed up, at least 30 in all, each one eager to discuss the merits of bitcoin as a currency. Plenty of speculation about the future of bitcoin, including it's world-wide suitability, rate of adoption, and (of course) future price.

The event even attracted the attention of the CEO of newlibertydollar.com, Joseph VaughnPerling, who was kind enough to donate one of his new QR-encoded bitcoin silvers to the raffle. LoTR also gave away 3 other envelopes of bitcoin, each valued at about 10 U.S. Fed Reserve Notes (and rapidly appreciating in value), in an effort to promote awareness and use.

Bootlegger's serves only beverages and carries no food, so our group was greatly disappointed that the food truck cancelled their appearance. But, being so heavily anarchist, there were some among us who knew how to deal with a failure in planninng. They had kind generosity to order pizza. Joseph donated a couple pizzas, and pointed out his self-interest in the matter: "Hungry people are grumpy. I don't like talking to grumpy people." I'm sure our other benefactors felt similarly and took action not exclusively motivated by altruism.

During mingling, many things were discussed. We noticed a correlation between the excitement an individual had toward bitcoin and any resultant payoff. VaughnPerling discussed the case of Bernard von NotHaus, who had plenty of his wealth confiscated but is yet to be locked in a cage by the government for circulating coins which they considered similar enough to be threatening as counterfeit. (Exactly how gullible do these government judges think we are?)

Much of the conversations during the mingling I didn't catch. I received some good information from a suited fellow advertising his gun-training and shooting services (email me for more info), talked at length about why government sucks which everyone there already knew, and I tried to convince anyone who'd listen that anarchy would be better (that will be discussed in a secondary post).

So successful was our event, that a new Facebook group formed: The SoCal Bitcoin Syndicate #WeLiveFreeBTC.

Any and all are welcome to attend the next LoTR meetup: A celebration of Saturnalia at 7:00pm on Dec 5th at The Stave in Long Beach. Both #LiveFreeOC and #LiveFreeLA will attend!