The crypto bro world, as it actually exists, does it bother drawing much on the sort of libert and cipher punk godfathers of crypto currency? Or has the data day crypto discourse really dispensed with a lot of that pretence? How do those two things fit together? There's probly a couple of ways to divide this up. I firmly think that crypto sor entered the influencer and celebrity realm othes thing havewritten about a bit. And so you see a lot of people on twitter and other places who are just pumping up the latest crypto influences. You know it it's become this sort of like this brotastic miami rising andt get your bag culture based
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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