Let Them Eat Crypto
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The subject of immense hope, hype, and confusion, crypto has amassed countless headlines in recent years. With cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and metaverse markets crashing, the underlying blockchain technology is still promising to solve global development challenges whilst revolutionizing every industry. But is technology really a silver bullet?
Let Them Eat Crypto puts blockchain, cryptocurrency, and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before.
Peter Howson cuts through the jargon and bluster to tell an alarming story of how right-wing libertarian crypto entrepreneurs – often aided by charities, politicians, and philanthropists – seek out and exploit conditions of poverty, oppression, corruption, and conflict. Their goal? A new front of 'crypto-colonial' extractivism. Let Them Eat Crypto reveals the alarming truth: far from 'banking the unbanked', saving the gorillas, or freeing people from oppressive governments, blockchain offers only false solutions, surveillance, and hi-tech snake oil.
Let Them Eat Crypto puts blockchain, cryptocurrency, and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before.
Peter Howson cuts through the jargon and bluster to tell an alarming story of how right-wing libertarian crypto entrepreneurs – often aided by charities, politicians, and philanthropists – seek out and exploit conditions of poverty, oppression, corruption, and conflict. Their goal? A new front of 'crypto-colonial' extractivism. Let Them Eat Crypto reveals the alarming truth: far from 'banking the unbanked', saving the gorillas, or freeing people from oppressive governments, blockchain offers only false solutions, surveillance, and hi-tech snake oil.
A shocking exposé of the huge social, political and environmental costs of cryptocurrencies
Peter Howson is a technology writer, researcher, and Assistant Professor in International Development at Northumbria University, Newcastle. He investigates the green-washing, aid-washing, and crypto-shenanigans that go on in Silicon Valley, as well as the lesser-known tech-hubs of the Global South.
1. Introduction
2. Welcome to Cryptoland
3. Unbanking the Banked / Banking the Unbanked
4. The Great Green Crypto Swindle
5. Crypto-Giving
6. The Bloke Chain
7. Crypto and the Metaverse
8. A World Without Web3
2. Welcome to Cryptoland
3. Unbanking the Banked / Banking the Unbanked
4. The Great Green Crypto Swindle
5. Crypto-Giving
6. The Bloke Chain
7. Crypto and the Metaverse
8. A World Without Web3
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