Cyber enthusiasts have been following Jack Dorsey’s lead ever since he, the CEO of Square and Twitter, began to appreciate the crypto asset bitcoin. There are mixed feelings about Dorsey. Some people love him but others doubt his motives. His firm has been accused in mass censorship. Then on August 13, Dorsey tweeted out a URL link to a book called “Anatomy of the State” by the economist Murray Rothbard. His tweet attracted a lot of likes from bitcoiners, but also confused a lot of libertarians.

While some Bitcoin supporters love him, many other crypto advocates don’t trust Jack Dorsey

For quite some time now, the CEO of Twitter has been a bitcoin (BTC) supporter as he sports a Lightning Network emoji next to his username and keeps a bitcoin symbol in his Twitter bio. Jack Dorsey has also talked about the benefits of bitcoin on various occasions and recently tweeted about the vast number of Nigerians that leverage the crypto asset.

Dorsey’s other company Square allows merchants to accept bitcoin and people can purchase BTC via the Cash App as well. Dorsey isn’t liked by all and, in fact, many crypto supporters don’t like the fact that he’s a maximalist and that his company has censored individuals. Many also believe that he’s simply a run-ofthe-mill figurehead from Big Tech.

Dorsey recently said that bitcoin would be a big part of Twitter’s future and recently discussed the subject of bitcoin with Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood and Tesla’s Elon Musk at the “B Word” event. Dorsey’s company Square is also in the midst of developing a bitcoin hardware wallet.

But while Dorsey was on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami he was heckled by a conference attendee over “censorship” and “interfering in elections.” Since the onset of Covid-19, just like Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram, Dorsey’s firm Twitter has been accused of mass censorship when tweets involved alternative discussions concerning the narrative surrounding the coronavirus and the 2020 election.

Twitter CEO Stuns Bitcoiners and Libertarians with Rothbard Book Tweet

To many people’s surprise, on Friday the 13th, Dorsey shared a URL to Murray Rothbard’s magnum opus called “Anatomy of the State.” So far Dorsey’s Rothbard tweet has close to 13,000 likes and almost 2,000 retweets. The Twitter CEO even got the name “Rothbard” trending across Twitter since he shared the link stemming from Mises.org. Because Dorsey, a leftist who supports the state, was confused by it, it also confused many bitcoiners and libertarian voices.

American economist Murray Newton Rothbard was, however, a leading anarcho-capitalism theoretician and one of the founders the Austrian School economics. People were confused by Dorsey’s tweet because Rothbard would almost certainly ridicule today’s Neo-liberal ideals which Dorsey is well-known for advocating.

Free Market, Anti-War, and Anti-State

Rothbard’s book “Anatomy of the State” is considered one of the economist’s finest works and the first chapter, “What the State Is Not,” lays the groundwork of people’s false perceptions of the world’s nation-states. The state is the enemy of humanity and is a monopoly on violence that uses force and coercion to achieve its ends. Rothbard’s “Anatomy of the State”, describes the immorality of the state and the ways that “good intentions” can be used to justify theft and manipulation. Rothbard’s magnum opus, which is widely known, is a complete and unreservedly free market, antiwar, and antistate.

” “Predation must always precede production,” Rothbard wrote. He said that the free market was prior to the state. “The state was never created through a’social agreement’. It has always been born from conquest and exploitation,” Rothbard, an Austrian economist, adds.

The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

We don’t know if Jack Dorsey’s tweet meant that he was moved by Rothbard’s book and words that describe the state or if it was just a Friday the 13th gag. Although it is unlikely that Twitter’s CEO will become a Rothbardian, many bitcoiners and libertarians are skeptical. However, others believe that Jack might be changing his ideological direction. Perhaps the Twitter CEO recognizes the importance of voluntary cooperation and thinks coercion and force are wrong.

What do you think about the CEO of Twitter sharing Murray Rothbard’s book “Anatomy of the State”? Comment below to let us know your thoughts on this topic.

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