Anonymity alongside that promise of decentralization, seemd to be the kind of fino, major ideological engines of a lot of what we're witnessing to day. It's one thing to follow these kind of early crypto communities in the nineties and two thousands and dig into their utopian imaginary. It's another to look at what happens on the ground once we actually have something that looks like and presents itself as crypto currency. Its about competition. It's about freedom, less about anonymity.
Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and why that vision emerged in a new form in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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