Crypto Winter Is Coming w/ Jacob Silverman
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Scam Aspect of Cryptocurrency
i feel like one of the arguments that we have against some of the things that you're describing is that, oh, yes, but you also need to think about the marginalized people who crypto is benefiting. The global south and remins issues and sort of countries with unstable governments are a challenging rhetorical, intellectual landscape. Even just look at the numbers, the chivo wallets don't work; there's constant technical problems. There's no practical sense in which bicoin can be used for anything other than money laundering. And besides being beyond being impractical and intractable, fiotan wants to do this world revolution by scanning eyeball-to-eyeball every time someone uses it
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