In the past year, we have seen another significant bubble in the price of bit coin. It feels like a lot of these people who are really invested in bitcoin ... are more openly championing kind of right wing politics. I certainly think that's part of what we saw in that miami conference. Here's a shamelessness to it. As you may know, if you like, follow the bitcoin discussions on redit in particular, and some other social media places. The need to keep this grift going is intense. One of the worst things you can do is go into some of the major bidcoin sub redits and say something like, oh, i sold my bitcoin and i made
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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