"For all the rhetoric of blockchain being a stateless technology, we have one government – that of the United States – actively pouring money into Tech Camps and other initiatives, all in order to turn the blockchain into the arch-solution to developmental problems. "
Though they talk about tokens, blockchains, and NFTs, crypto projects that aim at conservation still rely on monetizing biodiversity and trading its ‘services’ and basically seem to render more complicated what was not working in the first place.
"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."
"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. "
"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."