1. What exactly does MtGox prevent? I never used it, never relied on it and almost all of my friends don't care about MtGox. Yet all of us were able to buy, sell, trade and write software for Bitcoin without a problem.
2. Free market for me is about protection, not aggression. Bitcoin network is a free market in a sense that everyone's property is very cheap to protect and very expensive to extract. No matter what I think about how government should work, your BTC is safe and same for my BTC regarding your opinions. We simply have no other way, but to stop arguing and start cooperating voluntarily or just ignore each other. With BTC scripts we can fully insure our contracts without any need for neither "law", not its "enforcement". You can be very-very rich guy, but it still will be more expensive for you to steal my coins than just to trade honestly.
1) MtGox currently prevents outbound transfers of Bitcoins, and limits conversions into real currency.
2) Using your own personalized definition of free market changes the discussion. "Free market" isn't about protection or aggression, or power of any kind. The common definition is that that the market is free of external influences, so that market forces determine all outcomes. Indeed--by the common definition of "free market" Bitcoin is the absolute opposite--it's the pinnacle of socialized currency: everyone owns the currency and everyone is responsible for protecting it. BTC scripts don't eliminate the law or its enforcement, they become the law. (Law is simply regulation--in whatever form it takes place. For example, in the US law is both statutory, case-based, and practice-based, depending on the context.)
2. Free market for me is about protection, not aggression. Bitcoin network is a free market in a sense that everyone's property is very cheap to protect and very expensive to extract. No matter what I think about how government should work, your BTC is safe and same for my BTC regarding your opinions. We simply have no other way, but to stop arguing and start cooperating voluntarily or just ignore each other. With BTC scripts we can fully insure our contracts without any need for neither "law", not its "enforcement". You can be very-very rich guy, but it still will be more expensive for you to steal my coins than just to trade honestly.
Expanded argument: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/71410377996/crypto-anarchy-doe...