The author of this article obviously does not understand the value of bitcoin from a freedom/privacy standpoint. I sense a profound naïveté. Perhaps the author exists in a world of privilege, a perceptually managed zone created by authority figures he has not yet questioned. Thus he posts his arguments on a website that makes it to hackernews, in order to receive feedback that will shape his thinking. I see a conditioned mind that has produced this output. But for the sake of argument, some other possibilities.. It could be that his intellectual strategy is to put down other peoples work, in an attempt to elevate his status as a sort of lazy art critic. It could be that he has a better solution, a competitor to bitcoin (I doubt it). It could be that he’s a troll, and someone we shouldn’t feed. It could be..