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NFTs with Nathan Schneider and Cory Doctorow

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Cryptocurrency and the Colonization of the Americas

i'm going to throw a bunch of quotes at you and just whatever sticks. The first one is actually from that piece of yours that i mentioned earlier. So far, the apparent freedom to speculate quickly turns into servitude to the whims of the market. Already, crypto markets demand massive amounts of electricity. That looks more like distopia than utopia. And then, ok. We do see the possibility of these block chains, whose transactions cannot be reversed, being used to take advantage of people with less power in this system. I compare this to something outside of block chain, but at i think it's very close - robin hood.

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