Climbing out of the rabbit hole

By shape shifting between utopian global computer and Ponzi dispenser, crypto both indoctrinated New Internet practitioners and implicated them amongst a crowd of day traders that they otherwise would have been repulsed by. In crypto's effect on the New Internet, we see the subtle ways that access to capital can simultaneously accelerate and mutate... See more

Every time I do this exercise, no matter where I am in the world, the results are always the same. Some people name their family, their peeps from college, a close group of friends, maybe their coworkers, a sports club they are a part of, a band, or some other special-interest social group. I’ve heard many of them over the years. No matter what the

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Crypto is yet another polarizing topic these days. Some people are trying to figure out what the hell is going on with it, while most everyone else seems to have already made up their mind, and they usually don’t like to have their decisions questioned.

Though the jargon and memes of crypto twitter bring insiders together, they do virtually nothing to help new people enter the space — the same things that provide inclusivity within crypto networks maintain exclusivity outside of them.