cryptoleft

Conspiracy theory: crypto is so useful for advancing the goals of the left that the most cringe, disgusting people in the world (Trump, Kanye, Milei) are using it as a psyop to push us away from it

writing stuff about tech + decentralization

Crypto is a mirror. Leftists see in it alternative money systems. The worst people on earth, which happen to be currently running the show, see the possibility of doing crime at a new order of magnitude.

Good metaphor. I think, similarly, a lens might be appropriate. You see what you want. It enables what you want it to. The thing I most want the left to know about crypto is its like the internet. In the early days it was hypercapitalist, overhyped, and seemingly useless. And even now there is a huge right wing presence on it. But that should not push us away from using the internet. Nor crypto.

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The left's dismissal of both crypto and AI only makes it loose territory against these awful people.

We used to cherish technology. Lenin was amazed with Ford's production lines, and that didn't make him ideologically impure, quite the contrary.