One of the best uses for crypto is for illegal activity. Money laundering and tax avasion are easy through cryptos. It's not nearly as private as you think it is, right? Like them, ithides your identity, but what you do is not anonymous. The government has gotten very good at trackingcrypts.
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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