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A collection to understand crypto, politics, economics and power.
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Political Economy · Yanis Varoufakis · 2023
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
To discuss crypto from the left, one must understand platform power. This book offers a provocative vocabulary for that, and also a target for debate.
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Academic articleEC·B·0022024Democracy & Regulation · Academic article
Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020
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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Academic articleEC·B·0042024Crypto Critiques · Academic article
Bitcoin, techno-utopianism and populism: Unveiling Bukele's crypto-populism in El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin
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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BookEC·B·0112016Crypto Critiques · Book
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
David Golumbia · 2016
A forceful critique of Bitcoin's ideological roots in right-wing libertarian thought.
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WhitepaperEC·B·0152008Web3 & Power · Whitepaper
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto · 2008
The original nine-page text that proposed Bitcoin.
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Academic articleEC·B·0262023Crypto Critiques · Academic article
The political economy of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador: Temporary bandages to permanent wounds?
Tobias Boos e Juan Grigera · 2023
A political economy analysis of Bitcoin's adoption as legal tender in El Salvador.
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