In september, china band all crypto currency mining and transactions. The indian parliament is considering a bill to ban all private crypto currency. What motivates these sorts of crackdowns? And what sort of impact might they have on the global crypto currency market?
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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