Ant: In the bitcoin and crypto currency system, it is possible to lose your transactions. Ant: When you lose your bit coin, it's just gone. You don't erace it, but you have permanently put it in some kind of transaction that nobody can figure out a way to access. So that sounds on the surface like your offering people something good, but you are actually offering people something terrible through a kind of conspiratorial understanding of what it was they had in the first place.
Paris Marx is joined by David Golumbia to discuss the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, the right-wing politics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, and why the left shouldn’t embrace them.
David Golumbia is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism.” He’s also writing a new book called “Cyberlibertarianism” from Minnesota University Press. Follow David on Twitter as @dgolumbia.
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