Saturday, October 15, 2016


This is a short and very interesting analysis of the grounding of bitcoin (and related cyberlibertarian tropes) in the discourse of the extreme right.

Golumbia also blogs here


The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (Forerunners: Ideas First) by [Golumbia, David]

1 comment:

Phil Knight said...

This is an actually pretty mindblowing account of how libertarian thought took hold. Oddly enough, it wasn't from the Right:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/