Cryptocurrency

crypto currency shares a history and agenda with the radical pro privacy and civil rights cryptographers called the cypher punks. Cryp and progressive share many aims, but they differ radically in how to get there. It's fair to say that the industry may be bringing this on itself. There is a caricature of bit coin on both sides. On the right, bit coin is the ultimate small government force. On the left, bit coin as boiling the oceans, environmental disaster. That is likely just the new tool of wall street. But when it actually comes down to it, the culture warriors who are starting to glom on to bit coin and put it into their culture war quivers represent a

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