crypto currencyn of itself, i don't really, i can't really see it as a currency, right? Even like a generous framing or sense of that word, its for speculators. And generally speaking, it's spec speculative with really ravagant ways to do so. The space has created some interesting things and projects and tools that might have value, but for different reasons. I think people who are more pro web three or pro crypto would say, you know, all the crypto currencies and the pump dum schemes a kind of distraction. But what's important about Crypto is that fraud and these kinds of features are almost part of the landscape.
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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