Jeff Berwick
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Jeff Berwick | |
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| Born | Jeffrey David Berwick November 24, 1970 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Jeff Berwick (born Jeffrey David Berwick, November 24, 1970) is a Canadian businessman and self ascribed libertarian and anarcho-capitalist activist.
Berwick founded StockHouse Media Corporation in 1994 and remained CEO until 2002.
In April of 2013, Berwick envisioned building a bitcoin ATM in Cypress which he announced on CNBC. In May of 2013 Berwick released a statement that he did not close this venture with his partners.[1]
In 2014, Berwick was a partner and principle of John Cobin's Galt's Gulch Chile project,[2][3] which was to be a libertarian enclave in the Curacaví region of Chile. According to Vice News, the project raised from 4.3 million dollars (to 10.55 million dollars) through sales and loans for land which did not have water rights and was not zoned properly thus making the land unusable for its intended purpose thus resulting in a business dispute.[4][5][6] Salon magazine noted the irony of having a Randian libertarian utopia morph into a business dispute.[7]
References
- ^ Thompson, Cadie. "Bitcoin Boom? An ATM for Virtual Currency in the Works". Retrieved 2015-09-02.
- ^ Steven Bodzin (March–April 2014). "Libertarians Plan to Sit Out the Coming Collapse of America…in Chile". MotherJones.
- ^ "Home - Galts Gulch Chile". galtsgulchchile.com. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
- ^ "Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart | VICE | United States". Retrieved 2015-09-02.
- ^ Adam Weinstein (2014-08-28). "Ayn Rand's Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing Shitstorm". Gawker.
- ^ Th0rn (Aug 29, 2014). "Chaos and Fraud at Galt's Gulch". Daily Kos.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ RichardEskow, AlterNet. "Ayn Rand's capitalist paradise lost: The inside story of a libertarian scam". Retrieved 2015-09-03.