Jorge E. Cuéllar on El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment
"Bitcoin City, without a doubt, will precipitate land conflicts to clear the space to build it, and will lead to the expropriation of people’s lands. In a country that is as demographically stressed as El Salvador, this is inevitable."
Brian Eno on NFTs & Automaticism
"NFTs seem to me just a way for artists to get a little piece of the action from global capitalism, our own cute little version of financialisation. "
Sanneke Kloppenburg on Climate & Crypto
"The blockchain will mostly be used as a ‘simple solution’ to the climate crisis, keeping the focus on streamlining existing governance arrangements and on blockchain-mediated green consumerism."
Andrés Arauz on CDBCs and Sovereignty
"The sellers of NFTs and innovative cryptocurrencies will probably keep succeeding until the underlying policy decision is to continue throwing money at the system."
Katrin Becker on Lex Cryptographia
"Offering a technological alternative to institutions, the DAO seems to finally fulfill the cybernetic dream of a posthuman economy, but the crucial question is whether we’re in fact dealing with institutions here."