Contributors: Bill Maurer, Lev Menand, Lana Swartz, J.S. Nelson, Benjamin Geva, Hilary Allen, David Golumbia, Finn Brunton, Gili Vidan, Marcelo De Castro Cunha Filho, Susan Silbey, John Haskell, Nathan Tankus, Katharina Pistor, and Joseph Sommer
Category: David Golumbia
Virtual Currencies and the State
D. Golumbia, Why Do We Keep Taking the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Scam Seriously?
July 3, 2020
David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University
In the longer piece on which this one follows, I do what I can to show that nearly all of the claims for cryptocurrency and blockchain are false, and most are based on outright fraud.