For the extropians, digital currency didn't just aid in the creation of a newly private society. In its secret markets, it would spur new economic systems that would ccelerate innovation and invention. The groups had a lot of overlap, an membership and interest in mailing lists. To what degree has cipher punk carritage influenced to day's reigning crypto culture and ideology? And to what extent is it drawing on hkian neo liberalism? Does it all add up to a new cipher neo liberalism?"
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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