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Let them eat crypto : the blockchain scam that's ruining the world / Peter Howson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780745348216 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: x, 289 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Banking the unbanked -- The crypto colonists -- Green wash trading -- Bad samaritans -- Bloke chains -- For betterverse or metaworse -- A world without Web3. |
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| Subject: | Blockchains (Databases) Cryptocurrencies. Digital currency. Financial services industry. Fraud. Investments. World Wide Web > Technological innovations. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | 332.4 How | 31681010346476 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
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Provides an exposâe of the huge social, political and environmental costs of cryptocurrencies. 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 promised to solve global development challenges, whilst revolutionizing every industry. But is the technology really a silver bullet? In this volume, Howson puts blockchain, cryptocurrency and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before and he tells 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. Howson 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. --From publisher's description. - Chicago Distribution Center
âAn essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problemâ David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
âA merciless takedown of attempts to apply blockchain to the worldâs biggest problems ... If you are thinking of using blockchain for good, read this firstâ Professor Villi Lehdonvirta, University of Oxford
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 and revolutionize every industry. But is the technology a silver bullet?
Peter Howson cuts through the jargon and bluster to tell an alarming story of how right-wing libertarian crypto entrepreneurs â often aided by charities, politicians, and philanthropists â seek out and exploit poverty, oppression, corruption, and conflict conditions. Their goal? A new front of âcrypto-colonialâ extractivism. Let Them Eat Crypto reveals the alarming truth: far from âbanking the unbankedâ, 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 in Silicon Valley and the lesser-known tech hubs of the Global South.
- Chicago Distribution CenterA shocking exposé of the huge social, political and environmental costs of cryptocurrencies
