cryptoleft

Dear Cryptoleft, I have a question for you:

From my experience and knowledge (in France & in the US), it seems to me that left wing aligned ppl are more often than not, anti-crypto. Oftentimes because it's seem as a way to scam people, and often associated with finance, which is traditionally despised by the left.

However, given the very nature of blockchains, being a decentralized and transparent alternative to our current information storage/communication system, which should 100% align with the leftwing standards, how come we're seeing so much dogmatism and lazyness to actually understand the technology, embrace it, and build leftwing aligned proposition? This really baffles me to be honest.

Is there a deeper reason as to why things are this way? Making crypto a partisan issue is really the worst outcome possible...

/music co-host | Music DAO founder everwave.xyz | ex telco.in founder | writing on web3 & culture https://paragraph.xyz/@alixkun.eth

Trish already said it but… yeah. I listen to a lot of left wing podcasts, even ones about tech, and they love to bash crypto and blockchains. They don’t get it. The NFTs and scams and capitalist co-opting of crypto has been such a huge turn off to so many, it’s kinda an uphill battle. Also there are a lot of valid concerns about carbon emissions (more with proof of work systems) that need to be addressed publicly and with more than just a carbon offset program.