C’mon, People, Let’s Get Those Bitcoin Donations up to Keep Sending Brian Doherty Into the Wacky, Wonderful World of Lived-in Freedom!

I always did like the Flaming Lips. ||| So as of yesterday afternoon,
Reason’s annual Webathon, our drive to
$200,000 in tax-deductible donations that ends today, had
received the following category & number of gifts:

* By credit card: 477

* Paypal: 277

* Amazon: 65

* Bitcoin: 24

Look, I don’t want to inject any ingratitude into what has been
our most successful Webathon to date, BUT ONLY 24 BITCOIN
DONATIONS??? As the man said, “Come on!” (Yes, I’m

recycling.) If I had a Bitcoin donation for every time I had
been asked by a libertarian–let alone lectured at by highly
caffeinated Silicon Valley types–about how Bitcoin was going to
undermine the very concept of the nation-state, well, I’d have more
than 24 Bitcoin donations, that’s what!

Boom, shake shake shake the room. ||| Which brings us to our most Bitcointastic of
senior editors, Brian
Doherty. Here’s what it’s like in
Brian‘s vibrant, anarchic world: You put
a
3D-printed gun in your pocket (or just a regular

gun, for that matter),
summon an Uber, pay for it with
Bitcoin, ride to the airport where you board a
plane without showing ID, fly to Burning
Man (I know there’s no airports there
shhhhhh), dress up as Isabel
Paterson, and ingest items purchased on
the Silk
Road.

Do you share that dream? Of course (many of) you do. (And for
those who don’t, that’s cool: Brian’s inherently tolerant world of
peacable transactions between consenting humans also includes a lot
of offline reading, perhaps in your Mike Love-style Freedom
Pajamas.)

So why not give us some of those
Bitcoins you’ve been hoarding to help fund even more
Dohertian explorations of what human pioneers are doing with their
freedom?

Brian Doherty is the historian of the libertarian
movement, including that of
Reason itself. Check out his
bibliography: This is Burning
Man (2004), Radicals
for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian
Movement (2007), Gun
Control on Trial (2008), and Ron
Paul’s Revolution: The Man and the Movement He
Inspired.