Tag: cryptocurrency

• How Not to Play the Game

  January 1, 2023

  One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto is that it allowed for the creation of a toy financial system. There was already a regular financial system, a set… more ›

• A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here’s What Happened Instead

  July 31, 2022

  Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game.… more ›

• Satoshi Wept: How Crypto Replayed the 2008 Financial Crisis

  July 17, 2022

  “Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.” – Satoshi… more ›

• Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

  June 30, 2022

  Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents… more ›

• Reality Intrudes on a Utopian Crypto Vision

  March 10, 2022

  WASHINGTON — American CryptoFed is a new kind of company spawned by the advent of cryptocurrency — one that claims, in a way, not to be a company at all.… more ›

• Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

  February 13, 2022

  “Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic… more ›

• The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

  February 5, 2022

  Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. It’s the latest public victory for this form of … and, you… more ›

• “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs

  December 30, 2021

  In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation… more ›

• Financial Stability Report – December 2021

  December 28, 2021

  The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) seeks to ensure the UK financial system is prepared for, and resilient to, the wide range of risks it could face – so that the… more ›

• The Mirrortable

  December 28, 2021

  Here is what angel investing should be: Send USDC from a wallet with your ENS to the entity’s ENS and get digital mirror assets back into your wallet. https://balajis.com/mirrortable/ more ›