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The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

17th July 2022

Minnesota University Press.

Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that cybercurrency is Right-Wing Extremism.

 

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