Interview with an Anonymous GameStop Investor
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/this-is-for-you-dad-interview-with
Meme-swarm and Microtrading by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
https://illwilleditions.com/meme-swarm-and-microtrading/
NFTs Will Introduce Crypto To The Mainstream
https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/nfts-will-introduce-crypto-to-the
Early bitcoin politics: Digital metallism vs Infrastructural mutualism
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/what-were-the-early-politics-of-bitcoin-digital-metallism-vs-infrastructural-mutualism/
The “Bitcoin Economy” is Just an Illegal Casino Run by the Mob (via D. Golumbia)
http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-bitcoin-economy-is-just-an-illegal-casino-run-by-the-mob/#more-1083
More on the Substack Economy and Paid Newsletters
https://blog.substack.com/p/welcome-facebook-and-twitter-seriously
Chinese microlending on smart-phone apps is getting weird and dangerous
https://www.protocol.com/china/chinese-microlending-out-of-control
Buenos Aires produced Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it disappeared.
https://restofworld.org/2021/rise-and-fall-of-the-house-of-bitcoin/
An Inside Look–about Buenos Aires Voltaire House, from May 2017 ,via PR
https://medium.com/decentraland/an-inside-look-into-how-crypto-projects-are-made-bffae4b20eae
Video: Trust in the Blockchain Society
https://www.trustblockchainsociety.com/
Do decentralized social networks really need blockchain?
https://www.coindesk.com/decentralized-social-networks-next-big-blockchain-opportunity
Decentralized vs. Distributed Organization: Blockchain and Machine Learning
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2631787720977052
Market is Rigged in Favour of the Rich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/31/market-is-rigged-in-favour-of-rich-as-gamestop-fiasco-reveals
Morozov on Gamestop and Robin Hood
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/03/gamestop-platform-populism-uber-airbnb-wework-robinhood-democracy
Kenan Malik: Irrational Markets and Corporate Power (via Eduard de Jong)
https://kenanmalik.com/2021/02/03/irrational-markets-and-corporate-power/
Meta Theory of Reddit (via Pekko/ECSA)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MetaTheoryOfReddit/
Meme Economy (via Pekko/ECSA)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/
Memo Akten: The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt
https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053
101 Economics of Crypto-Art by Derek Schloss and Stephen McKeon
https://medium.com/collab-currency/youre-sleeping-on-crypto-art-7df920ec038e
Can you explain like I’m five what happened with the GameStop stock? (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-explain-like-Im-five-what-happened-with-the-GameStop-stock
What happened to GameStop? (via Felix Stalder/nettime)
https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/
On the uselessness of the stockmarket (via Patricia de Vries)
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/gamestop-stock-market-reddit?fbclid=IwAR3il8NXtqixfgh7loX-5RZj8GXk6iFRWQIE1AcWAV3HNi2QU8NTbvi3swk
Brett Scott on GameStop
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/30/gamestop-power-of-the-swarm-shares-traders
Nathan Schneider’s Twitter thread on GameStop (via Ela Kagel)
https://twitter.com/ntnsndr/status/1355376724175970306
Original plan on r/wallstreetbets to go after Citadel from September 9, 2020
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_real_greatest_short_burn_of_the_century/
And this update from Friday January 29, 2021
https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/l7dg4s/please_understand_why_robinhood_pulled_the_stunt/
Matrix meme video on the GameStop story
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l90oq6/i_am_proud_to_do_my_part_in_paying_forward_our/?context=3
Alexis Goldstein: GameStop madness isn’t David vs Goliath. It’s Goliath vs. Goliath (via Marleen Stikker)
https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/
Robinhood and Reddit protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress (via Ned Rossiter)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-robinhood-liability-an-idUSKBN29Z0HI
NPR: The Redditors Behind The GameStop Wall Street Frenzy
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/961969984/the-redditors-behind-the-gamestop-wall-street-frenzy
Jacob Silverman: Is Tether Just a Scam to Enrich Bitcoin Investors?
https://newrepublic.com/article/160905/tether-cryptocurrency-scam-enrich-bitcoin-investors
$50bn in cryptoassets moved out of China in the past year
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/8/20/50bn-in-cryptoassets-moved-out-of-china-in-the-past-year
For all you lovers: a guide to value-form theory
https://reificationofpersonsandpersonificationofthings.wordpress.com
What you always wanted to know about German Wertkritik (warning: will change your life)
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/195-reviews
The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine
https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-inside-cryptos-doomsday-machine-f8dcf78a64d3
Bitcoin as the new T-Model Ford
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-01-19/bitcoin-model-t-money
More on the role of Tethers
https://amycastor.com/2021/01/20/how-can-24b-in-tethers-move-a-650b-bitcoin-market-cap-and-other-mathematically-illiterate-questions/
Quote of the day:
“Bitcoin was, after all, not designed to be a speculative asset. It was designed to be a currency, a new medium of exchange that people could, and would, use to transact daily business with each other.” From:
The Bitcoin Dream Is Dead
https://marker.medium.com/the-bitcoin-dream-is-dead-8b621d2d7dbd
Libra is not yet dead
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/27/facebooks-libra-could-launch-in-january/
Platform Monetization: Dealing with High Adoption Barriers
https://medium.com/breadcrumb/platform-monetization-dealing-with-high-adoption-barriers-57eed4e15836
Decentralized vs. Distributed Organization: Blockchain, ML and Digital Platforms
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2631787720977052
Cryptocurrencies revisited: Why investors are justly skeptical about traditional cryptos
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-12-11/cryptocurrencies-revisited-why-investors-are-justly-skeptical-about-traditional
European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement
https://www.ngi.eu/news/2020/12/01/the-european-commission-is-looking-for-novel-blockchain-solutions-for-the-european-blockchain-service-infrastructure/
NFTs: A Revolution for Digital Capitalists (on collecting digital art)
https://decrypt.co/49541/nfts-a-revolution-for-digital-capitalists
Related… from net.art and Linden dollars to the pop culture of digital collectibles
https://terravirtua.io/
John McAfee has promised to eat his own dick on National Television #BTC
http://dickening.com/
SOMO Report: The Financialisation of Big Tech–Engineering Digital Monopolies
https://www.somo.nl/the-financialisation-of-big-tech/
David Gerard: Libra Shrugged
https://books2read.com/u/mlWvQq
Blockchains: building blocks of a post-capitalist future? ByHannes Gerhardt
https://longreads.tni.org/blockchains-post-capitalist-future
Paris Marx: The Ad-Based Internet Is About to Collapse. What Comes Next?
https://onezero.medium.com/the-ad-based-internet-is-about-to-collapse-what-comes-next-48e31d648a35
Blockchain voting risks undetectable nation-scale failures: MIT researchers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/blockchain-voting-risks-undetectable-nation-scale-failures-mit-researchers/
The burden of the free on tired open source programmers and lack of collective fin. imagination
https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-coders-few-tired/
Are the pixie fairies sprinkling gold dust on Bitcoin’s market again? (via David Golumbia)
https://amycastor.com/2020/11/21/are-pixie-fairies-behind-bitcoins-latest-bubble/
Lifting the Lid on Fintech: report launch
https://financeinnovationlab.org/events/lifting-the-lid-on-fintech-report-launch/
MoneyLab #X Australia program info, November 5-6, 2020
https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/moneylab-10-economythologies/
MoneyLab #11 Berlin first announcement: Disaster Capitalism, March 26-28, 2021
https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/newevents/moneylab-11-disaster-capitalism/
EU Distributed Ledger Technologies
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC121675/jrc121675_dlt4good_scanning_the_european_ecosystem_online.pdf
Interview with Jonathan Beller on Financing the Revolution
One WEIRD trick: A Radical Strategy to Finance the Revolution feat. Jonathan Beller
Other Internet is an independent strategy and research group:
Squad Wealth
https://otherinter.net/squad-wealth/
Headless Brands
https://otherinter.net/web3/headless-brands/
Silk Road bitcoins worth $1bn change hands after seven years
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/04/silk-road-bitcoins-worth-1bn-change-hands-after-seven-years
Mirror, a new kind of publishing platform (via Kei)
https://mirror.xyz/
James Burke: The Broken De-Fi Hypecycle (via Soenke)
https://outlierventures.io/research/the-broken-defi-hypecycle/
Debate! The German Basic Income Machine
https://www.basicincomemachine.com
Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism, London (April 16, 2021)
https://financeandsocietynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cfp-libidinal-economies-2021.pdf