Let Them Eat Crypto (eBook)

The Blockchain Scam That's Ruining the World

Peter Howson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Pluto Press (Verlag)
9780745348230 (ISBN)

Infos

An essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot BlockchainA merciless takedown of attempts to apply blockchain to the worlds biggest problems ... If you are thinking of using blockchain for good, read this first Professor Villi Lehdonvirta, University of OxfordThe 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 promised to solve global development challenges, and revolutionise every industry. But is the technology really a silver bullet?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.Peter Howson is a technology writer, researcher and Assistant Professor in International Development at Northumbria University. His work has appeared in Reuters, The Independent, The Conversation, Novara, Jacobin and Coindesk. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: AidChain • AidCoin • AidTech • Banking • Big Tech • billionaire philanthrophy • Bitcoin • bitcoin environmental impact • Blockchain • Books about crypto • capitalism and technology • capitalism and web 3.0 • class war • Colonialism • Crypto Boom • Crypto bros • Crypto-colonialism • Crypto for Good • cryptophilanthropy • crypto scandals • Crypto Wars • Cyrpto-fascism • Development Indust • Disaster Capitalism • does bitcoin help the economy • eat the rich • eco-fascism • Effective altruism • Elon Musk • Environment • Exploitation • Extractivism • Finance • Financial Fraud • Fintech Scandals • Fraud • International Development • introduction to crypto • intro to crypto • is bitcoin dead • Is crypto a good investment? • is crypto anti capitalist • is crypto anti government • Is crypto bad • Left critique of cryptocurrency • metaverse • NFTS • Poverty • Ruja Ignatova • Silicon Valley • Technoutopias • Wall Street • wall street and crypto • What is bitcoin? • What is crupto currency • what is crypto • Who is Sam Bankman-Fried • why is bitcoin bad • why is crypto crashing
• ISBN-13: 9780745348230 / 9780745348230