Why governments, through central banks, should be the sole issuer of banknotes and coins? And why not the private sector be allowed to issue them? These are examples of questions that are often asked by anarchists even today. The politics of bitcoin reflects this attitude, to some extent.
9  Much of the economic and political thought on which bitcoin is based stems from ideas that travel all the way from the Chicago School economics of Milton Friedman to the Federal Reserve System conspiracy theorists. Bitcoin enthusiasts may not be subscribing to these theories. It just happens that the assumptions and concepts stem from the very far right.