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Cryptocurrency w/ Edward Ongweso Jr & Jacob Silverman

The Dig

The Mystification of the Cryptocurrency and the Gulp Economy

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In both cases, it's mostly just rich people getting richer. Capitalist exploitation and plunder as usual, but with a new spirit for the times. The technology is rather secondary in a lot of ways. I agree that the technology is arguly, actively harmful. And we haven't even got into the number one critique of bitcoin, his that the environmental and e electrical requirements are huge and only growing. So i think what you really have is something like what edy described: an economic actor invested with almost no social support or financial support from any kind of backer. Or if your account goes under because you don't have any insurance, which is also called 'frivolity'

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