
Let Them Eat Crypto
The Blockchain Scam That's Ruining the World
By: Peter Howson
Paperback | 20 October 2023
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Let Them Eat Crypto puts blockchain, cryptocurrency and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before.
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.
About the Author
Peter Howson is a technology writer, researcher, and Assistant Professor in International Development at Northumbria University, Newcastle. 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.
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'A methodical and essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem - when they only exploit the vulnerable to pump their coins.'
-- David Gerard, author of 'Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain''Surveys the geopolitics of cryptocurrency and blockchain .. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency but at the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem'
-- 'Foreign Policy'ISBN: 9780745348216
ISBN-10: 0745348211
Published: 20th October 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20 x 13.5 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.28
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