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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·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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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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ReportEC·B·0122018Crypto Critiques · Report
Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype
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 articleEC·B·0132023Crypto Critiques · Academic article
Crypto-politics and counterfeit democracy
Leah Downey e Stefan Eich · 2023
An article questioning the idea that crypto is inherently more democratic than public money.
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