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The 2nd National Cryptocurrency Survey, by Paradigma and Datafolha, shows 29 million Brazilians who have owned crypto, most of them earning up to three minimum wages.
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Books, research, reports and official sources on crypto, politics, economics and power, including critical readings.
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Book2023Book2023Political Economy
Yanis Varoufakis · 2023
Varoufakis argues that big digital platforms have shifted market profit towards a feudal-type rent.
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Book2017Political Economy
Nick Srnicek · 2017
A short, rigorous map of how platforms became the dominant business model of the digital economy.
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Book2019Political Economy
Shoshana Zuboff · 2019
The work that named the economic model based on capturing and predicting human behavior.
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Book2020Democracy & Regulation
William Magnuson · 2020
A legal scholar examines blockchain's democratic promises and the limits they meet in law and politics.
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Book2016Crypto Critiques
David Golumbia · 2016
A forceful critique of Bitcoin's ideological roots in right-wing libertarian thought.
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Podcast2026Crypto & the Left
Joshua Davila (apresentação) com Yanis Varoufakis · 2026
A podcast and website dedicated to discussing blockchain, Web3, decentralization and the digital economy from the left. Highlight: the interview with economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, recorded at Web3 Summit in Berlin in June 2026, on blockchain, the digital euro and the power of big tech and banks.
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Academic article2024Democracy & Regulation
Joost van Spanje, Costin Ciobanu e Greta Arancia Sanna · 2024
A study drawing on voter and party surveys in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (2020 to 2023) on how 32 parties respond to Bitcoin, which is disproportionately supported by wealthy, highly educated male voters. In its literature review, the article notes that left-wing people may see Bitcoin as a decentralized system able to challenge power structures, while libertarians stress freeing the individual from the State. A basis for saying that Bitcoin is not inherently right-wing.
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Feature2022Political Economy
Ben Munster · 2022
A provocative feature mapping the left's split over Web3. On one side, critics who see financialization with a cooperative veneer; on the other, those who defend DAOs as tools for worker cooperatives and argue for contesting these technologies instead of handing them over to libertarians and anarcho-capitalists.
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Academic article2024Crypto Critiques
Tobias Boos · 2024
A must-read critical counterpoint. The article analyzes how Nayib Bukele wove Bitcoin's techno-utopian promises into right-wing populist narratives in El Salvador. Recognizing that part of crypto's political culture has been appropriated by libertarianism and the radical right is precisely what makes it necessary for the left to contest this space.
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News2026Web3 & Power
Mansi Chavan · 2026
Shows the growing ties between crypto interests and the British right. Nigel Farage's Reform UK has accepted crypto donations and had industry sponsors at its 2025 conference, and Farage faces a parliamentary investigation over whether he should have declared £5 million received from crypto investor Christopher Harborne. An example of the political consequences of abandoning the crypto debate.
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Official source2026Democracy & Regulation
Banco Central do Brasil · 2026
Primary source for Resolutions BCB No. 588 and No. 589: reporting to Coaf of transfers of US$10,000 or more involving self-custody wallets, and adjustments to the rules for virtual asset service providers.
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Report2018Crypto Critiques
Bank for International Settlements · 2018
The chapter in which the central banks' bank explains why, in its view, cryptocurrencies do not work well as money.
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Academic article2023Crypto Critiques
Leah Downey e Stefan Eich · 2023
An article questioning the idea that crypto is inherently more democratic than public money.
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Academic article2021Democracy & Regulation
Outi Korhonen e Juho Rantala · 2021
A short text proposing to think about blockchain governance beyond the libertarian horizon.
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