Readings for the Crypto Interregnum
After a generalised fall in the prices of virtual currencies, the crypto-sphere is experiencing a strange sort of interregnum: the standard-bearers are not dying quite yet, but nothing new is being born either. In the meantime, some would argue, morbid symptoms have...
Decolonise the Blockchain & other readings on crypto
The crypto world has changed dramatically in recent months, as promises of emancipation give way to harsh reality. The second-largest NFT platform, OpenSea, has acknowledged that 80% of...
Inês Faria on Crypto as Ritual and Religion
Technical mastery has long been part of religious or spiritual awe, as well as a means to create or strengthen power relations... Bitcoin and all the aura surrounding its creation had this same characteristic.
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
"Within our present oligarchic, exploitative, irrational, and inhuman world system, the rise of crypto applications will only make our society more oligarchic, more exploitative, more irrational, and more inhuman."
Adam Tooze on Macrofinance and “Fully Political Money”
"Monetary policy is not a curse to be driven out by some non-political binding mechanism, algorithmic or otherwise, but an opportunity to expand the range of our politics and collective self-organization."