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."
Edemilson Paraná on Digitised Finance, Bitcoin, Brazil
This is the boringly-obvious Oedipus tragedy of Bitcoin. It is as if this histrionic “rebellious child” of neoliberalism suddenly began demanding consistency from the father, the neoliberal establishment...
Web3: A Map in Search of Territory
Web3 is self-referential in the extreme. The value of the tokens is expected to grow as everything is to become more liquid and interconnected: tokens from one DAO will be valuable in another; more activities will be fractionalized; more institutions will turn into DAOs; more objects into NFTs...
Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
Of all the promises made in the name of Web3, two stand out as particularly radical and democracy-enhancing. First, some expect it...