Uncyclopedia:Featured articles/December 14

The Bitcoin (sign: ฿) is a failed experiment in magic online money. Each Bitcoin is subdivided into 100 million sub-units referred to as chumps.

The Bitcoin enchants libertarians and anarchists everywhere because it unites their core beliefs:

1. They distrust everything that government does.
2. They trust everything they read on the Internet.
3. They love to make a statement about themselves by buying and installing things that baffle their neighbors.

Libertarians and anarchists are always trying to invent replacements for the frilly services that government provides. This includes home-schools, private media of exchange, and occasionally personal armies with nuclear bombs.

Nothing could fit this community more perfectly than non-government money, whose only proof is Internet messages, and which none of their neighbors are ever going to understand – or accept in payment – for the damage somebody did yesterday to the shrubbery. (Full article...)