crypto people and the meamstock people, there's the sense that they're the populac revolutionaries, perhaps, but also that at the same time, they strive for legitimation. They want what they do to be seen as a sort of a the new finance, as ascendant and also as legally recognized. On the other hand, theyve been trying to do that for years. There was another e t f that was rejected just a coupleof weeks ago, i believe, in the sort of rejection of that e t f, they specifically cited tether and called it a so called stable coin. So you know that that playis my rest and tether, but it also tells you that
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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