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Interview with Steve Huckle, Author of “Socialism and the Blockchain”
This week I had the opportunity to interview the main author of Socialism and the Blockchain, Steve Huckle, a researcher at the University of Sussex in Brighton. The article was published in 2016 by Future Internet and one of the only pieces of academic research which takes a closer look at blockchain and how it…
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The Terrible Things that Would Happen in a Capitalist Blockchain World: Libra
Whether you like it or not, it’s very likely that the blockchain is coming to a future near you. As much as it is a buzzword for corporate neoliberal lizards, there’s a reason for it. That’s because their lizard brain pleasure centers have recognized how it could be used in specific ways to improve their…
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Won’t the State just Destroy the Blockchain?
Talk to your average Twitter bitcoin stan and they will tell you, in line with right wing libertarian ideology, the government is at fault for most if not all of the world’s ills and only bitcoin can help us create a more fair world. The problem here is that if you read a bit more…
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Very Big Announcement
Crypto Leftists, comrades, and other weirdos reading my articles, I want to thank you all for the feedback and discussions you’ve all engaged in with me and each other. It’s been an amazing past couple of months when I first started this initiative and the r/cryptoleftists subreddit. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the amount of…
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The Material Evolution of Digital Currency and Crypto (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of The Material Evolution of Digital Currency to Crypto series. You can find Part 1 here. The Great Recession Gave Birth to Bitcoin In case you missed it, back in late 2007, the US subprime mortgage market collapsed and brought down with it banks around the world causing the Great Recession,…
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The Material Evolution of Digital Currency and Crypto (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of The Material Evolution of Digital Currency to Crypto series. Whenever I speak to crypto-curious people, I like to give a little bit of the history and context that bitcoin was birthed from because I think it helps in understanding the big picture (and because I’m a dirty Marxist and I…
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Cocaine, the ICO Bubble, and Neoliberalism
As economic policy, neoliberalism appears in the form of market based reforms like deregulation, privatization, and austerity. When Bill Clinton repealed the Glass-Steagall Act which allowed commercial and investment banks to join together who were originally separated due to the speculation of people’s money leading to the Great Depression, ~neoliberalism~. When the European Union, European…
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Isn’t Blockchain Just a Huge Waste of Energy?
This has got to be by far the most frequently asked question by other Leftists and it’s a good question to ask. It’s also not surprising considering we know from the IPCC report that we have until 2030 to decrease our carbon emissions by half and reach net-zero by 2050. Like many of you probably,…
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What Do Other Leftists Think About Blockchain?
I’m not the first Leftist™ to analyze what crypto and blockchain could or could not mean for the future but I have to admit that there aren’t very many that have gone into much detail. Let’s take a look at two Leftists™ takes from their interviews with PRIMO NUTMEG. Also, check out his YouTube channel…
