Hydra darknet plans to operate outside of Russia
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/russian-darknet-marketplace-hydra-launches-dubious-ico
Erhard Schuettpelz: review of Katharina Pistor, The Code of Capital
https://www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/circulation-revisited-4
One: new Amazon payment system with your palm (via Inte Gloerich)
https://one.amazon.com/
Virtual tax havens: How social media platforms are helping tax dodgers hide their loot
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/10/10/tax-evasion-social-media/
Subscription Fatigue
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload
The Unholy Mix of Porn and Yield Farming: Swag.Finance
https://decrypt.co/44847/the-unholy-mix-of-porn-and-yield-farming-meet-swag-finance
Crypto scammers piggybacking Trump’s twitter, cloning Medium, stealing crypto
https://medium.com/@joegaebel/crypto-scammers-piggybacking-trumps-twitter-feed-cloning-medium-and-stealing-bitcoin-f93c65ff13f6
Frank Engster: Measure, Machine, Money
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309816820904030
Review in English of Engster’s book
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/8122_das-geld-als-mass-mittel-und-methode-review-by-christian-lotz/
Exclusive Mining of Blockchain Transactions
https://www.blockchainresearchlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Exclusive_Mining_of_Blockchain_Transactions_BRL_Working_Paper_No_13.pdf
Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/
SushiSwamp is not an exit scam…
https://decrypt.co/40976/founder-of-sushiswap-defi-protocol-cashes-out
Defi bubble bursts
https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-goes-boom-as-top-tokens-crash-by-50-in-one-week
Hackers stole 5.4 million USD from Eternise Cryptocurrency Exchange
https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/hackers-stole-cryptocurrencies.html
Mathew Leising’s book “Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That Almost Destroyed It All”
https://www.coindesk.com/55m-hack-ethereum-down
Tax Evasion Flag
https://rubyscythe.tumblr.com/post/180399042247/tax-fraud-pride-flag
Konjungate: Art-based blockchain to change the funding of artists and art organisations.
https://www.konjungate.net/
The Cult of the Free Must Die
https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/the_cult_of_the.html
Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/13/yam_cryptocurrency_bug_governance/
Massive Attack & Guy Standing collab video on UBI (via Jess Henderson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1YI-neupU
Massive Attack & Gabriel Zucman collab video on tax havens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balF4lf-Rt4&list=PL5GvFoMoPqHkciYLbIiyOxvjlLayantI9&index=3
The Gigless Economy
https://djmag.com/longreads/gig-less-economy-what-could-post-pandemic-dance-music-scene-look
French paid content company Cafeyn buys Dutch Blendle
https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/30/former-startup-darling-blendle-sold-french-company
Yanis Varoufakis on the historical decoupling of global finance and actual economies on the ground
https://diem25.org/something-remarkable-just-happened-this-august-how-the-pandemic-has-sped-the-passage-postcapitalism/
On connection of Australian Blockchain Innovation Hub with right-wing US think-tank
htttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/27/what-is-going-on-rmit-staff-irked-by-research-hubs-links-to-rightwing-thinktank
Lana Swartz new book is out! New Money–How Payment Became Social Media
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233223/new-money
And an interview about the book:
https://www.theverge.com/21368876/venmo-paypal-square-cash-app-social-media-payments-new-money-lana-swartz-interview
The Emergence of Paid Communities
https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/
Gabriel Nicholas: The Crypto Family Farm
https://logicmag.io/bodies/the-crypto-family-farm/
Brett Scott’s must see video lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWOO7r_NMw
Yanis Varoufakis on why bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-ally-reply-to-ben-arc/
Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/
Nesta DAO essay competition, the finalists
https://www.nesta.org.uk/project-updates/decentralised-digital-organisations-and-key-topics-people-are-talking-about/
SORAnomics: realizing a supranational world economic system
https://medium.com/@sora.xor/sora-the-new-economic-order-3ec3f0327e5a
Justin Clemens: In the State of Nature Nothing Will Be Lost
http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2020/05/31/in-the-state-of-nature-nothing-will-be-lost/
Via Patrice and Eduard:
Kenneth Rogoff: Will Covid make countries drop cash and adopt digital currencies?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/06/covid-cash-digital-currencies-coronavirus-central-banks
“(…) the central bank is poorly positioned to provide quality service on small retail accounts. Perhaps this could be addressed over time by using artificial intelligence or by expanding financial services offered by post office branches.” re-inventing the wheel – after we burned it). re: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf
(from reading the execsum) sounds like a complicated solution for a problem that should not exist in the first place …
Fear and Trembling: On the Blockchain (music album)
https://dungeonmasterllc.bandcamp.com/album/fear-and-trembling-on-the-blockchain
Fabricated Intimacy – dating apps, gamification and blockchain technology (via Inte Gloerich)
https://fabricatedintimacy.tech/
German company Wirecard say missing 2 billion likely will never show up
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/22/wirecard-says-missing-2-billion-likely-doesnt-exist-shares-crash.html
“Blockchain can help create a more democratic political and economic system.”
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ & https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/
How to Bring More Capital and Less Risk to Automated Market Maker DEXs
https://blog.chain.link/challenges-in-defi-how-to-bring-more-capital-and-less-risk-to-automated-market-maker-dexs/
Claudio Grass: The War On Cash – COVID Edition Part I
https://claudiograss.ch/2020/06/the-war-on-cash-covid-edition-part-i/
Making Blockchain More Human
https://whattheblock.org/
Feminist Economic Recovery
Our Financial Stalingrad against China (via Patricia de Vries)
https://lihkg.com/thread/2038608/page/1
DAO: A Decentralized Goverance Layer For the Internet of Value (via Akseli)
http://sammantics.com/blog/2020/5/20/dao-a-decentralized-governance-layer-for-the-internet-of-value
Goldman Sachs on Bitcoin
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-goldman-lists-reasons-why-not-asset-class-suitable-investment-2020-5-1029248469
Brett Scott: Why the War on Covid must not become a War on Cash
https://alteredstatesof.money/cash-and-covid/
Brett Scott’s own YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3uKtaOfW8MV7mIz6gFXUw
Google and Walmart establish dominance in India’s mobile payments market (via Inte Gloerich)
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/google-and-walmarts-phonepe-establish-dominance-in-indias-mobile-payments-market-as-whatsapp-pay-struggles-to-launch/
Michael Hudson: Fed’s $10 Trillion Defends Assets of the Rich (via Stefan Heidenreich)
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/06/michael-hudson-feds-10-trillion-defends-assets-of-the-rich.html
Australian CryptoCrurency Agitprop Documentary
https://cryptopiafilm.com/
Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto as Adam Back by Barely Sociable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g
Plus comments of Tone Vays and Jimmy Song
https://youtu.be/YbfODrl_Xi4
And bitcoin takeover’s comments of the BS video
https://bitcoin-takeover.com/why-barely-sociables-adam-back-is-satoshi-nakamoto-video-is-bcash-propaganda/
Few People Use, Mine or Buy Privacy Coin Grin
https://www.coindesk.com/18-months-few-people-use-mine-buy-privacy-coin-cryptocurrency-grin
New Money, the new book of Lana Swartz (via Inte Gloerich)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233223/new-money
Libra still needs more baking
https://voxeu.org/article/libra-still-needs-more-baking
“Bitcoin is a game of accumulation”
https://medium.com/@dergigi/dear-family-dear-friends-6ef7ee7a1a2b
JavaScript browser API which allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website
https://webmonetization.org/
China starts major trial of state-run digital currency (via Patricia de Vries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/china-starts-major-trial-of-state-run-digital-currency
Circles: an electronic cryptocurrency for a globally accessible Universal Basic Income (via Ela Kagel)
https://www.joincircles.net/
Jreg: Ancapistan (Full Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oVJRa_CBs
Jreg: Print Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1n6WdYTeQ
Chorus: Tax, Tax, Tax
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/i-made-millions-last-debt-crisis-rich-win-coronavirus-fair-tax