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Spelt is still the US passed tense of spell. Spelled is an abomination and I hate it. Yeah, Neal Stephenson has some of the best stuff out there for ancap leaning societies, along with a variety of _punk stuff. His nanopunk in The Diamond Age is really cool, and so is his cyberpunk world of...

Ooh, for those interested in cryptoanarchic fiction, Neal Stephenson has some great stuff, notably Cryptonomicon and Reamde (yes, that's spelt correctly).

As for crypto being too energy expensive, it really isn't. First, it depends on the model used. Proof of work (the usual one method used to confirm a transaction, like in bitcoin) is energy expensive, but other methods aren't. Second, bitcoin mining also serves as a useful solution to the 'too...

There's a very good argument about why crypto is important: it stops federal snooping of money. The big barrier for crypto is making it easy to spend. I'd love for there to be a system for just automatically converting from crypto to cash of some sort. Bitcoin ATMs sorta do this, but it's not...