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" The Cryptoanarchists’ Answer to Cash " is a bit loaded.

Are we going to call the Euro "the complete and utter morons answer to cash"? What about the Greek Drachma2 ?

There is more to a non-government currency than - OMG drugs and terrrrrrorists on the internet what about the children.

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Cryptoanarchist is a term much more likely to be used as a self-description than a political slur. I'd actually be surprised if anyone can find an instance of it being used as a slur.

Even the simple "anarchist" has lost popularity in the name-calling game, after the Seattle and the Iraq War protests.

> Cryptoanarchist is a term much more likely to be used as a self-description than a political slur.

Indeed.

I not only call myself that, I'm in the process of writing an entire science fiction novel from that political perspective. http://morlockpublishing.com/

I think coming from an organisation like the IEEE it wasn't meant as a hip and trendy self-referential term

I think the term's a bit too old to be considered hip and trendy.

Did you have any specific criticisms about the way cypherpunks were represented in the article itself, or is this just a superficial complaint about the headline? As an editor at IEEE Spectrum I would say that it wasn't intended as a pejorative.

Anarchist isn't a slur, it's a family of political philosophies. People call themselves anarchists, but "complete and utter morons," not so much.

Exactly. Cryptoanarchist is something many people self-identify themselves as.

> Are we going to call the Euro "the complete and utter morons answer to cash"?

Actually...

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