There seems to be so many layers of convergence between musk and crypto currency. Bid quoin's market cap reminds me a lot of tesses market cap fo ample. They seem like both essentially the same ideological and discursive force in this present moment of capitalist history. The constantly rising value that is then also that is leveraged to justify all these other extravagant things.
Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape. The first in a two-episode series on crypto.
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