Donate to Reason in Bitcoin, You Kooky, Decentralizing, Alt-Culture Freakazoids!

It’s Day One of Reason’s
annual webathon, in
which we
cajole,
bargain with, and
tickle you into donating whatever you can–$10, $100,
$10,000—for the cause of helping create ever-more libertarian
journalism and commentary. Our ambitious goal is to raise $100,000
of tax-deductible donations during this week-long bell-ring, and so
far we’re off to a pretty good start…except in one key
category.

You see, as my comrade Nick Gillespie
pointed out earlier, at the bottom of our donation page,
underneath a detailed list of goodies you’ll get for different
giving levels, there is a button there saying “Donate
Bitcoins.” Because if there’s one thing I know about you
tuned-in, far-out libertarian freakers out there is that you want
to talk in a VERY INSISTENT AND CONVINCING VOICE about how Bitcoin
is more
than just money—it’s an entire alternative ecosystem, a source
code for routing around any centralizing force, a blueprint for
undermining the nation-state itself. My analog brain might be a bit
slow in grasping fully the momentousness of this revolution, but
thankfully we’ve got smarter minds on the case: Jerry Brito,
Brian
Doherty, J.D.
Tuccille and the like.

So I just knew that announcing our ability to take webathon
donations in Bitcoin would lead to the sound of big, fat coin-like
thingies clanging in our virtual inbox or whatever. Sure enough, we
checked the status this noon and saw that we had…two Bitcoin
donations, totaling $102.13.

Now, I will never look any Reason gift in the mouth,
but…really? TWO BITCOIN DONATIONS???

Do you think Commentary magazine was taking Bitcoin
during its
recent pledge drive? Hail nah! How ’bout your local NPR affiliate? Yeah, no.
At Reason, we are not standing athwart the future yelling “Huh?”,
we’re rushing headlong into the stuff, guided in so many cases by
you, the futuretastic, spy-on-this, foundationally
experimental Reason reader.

It is through you that we’ve learned about and understood the
urgency of all sorts of what we in the June 2013 special issue
called “Experiments in
Libertarian Living.” There are the free-cities
pioneers (and their
seasteading antecedents), the
Free Staters and Jefferson-loving
secessionists, and the DIYers vs. The
State—from
Cody Wilson and his 3D-printable gun to, well, whichever
weirdoes birthed
Bitcoin into the world. We are the journalistic source that
tells these stories better and with more insider knowledge than
anyone out there, and our first and best tips come from you, the
cutting-edge, freedom-expanding readertariat.

So…two Bitcoin donations? As a great man once said, “Come on!“

Won’t you please donate some Bitcoin
right the hell now?