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This is the presumption that computer-based expertise trumps that of all other forms of expertise, sometimes because everything in the world is ultimately reducible to computational processes (a view sometimes known as computationalism; see Golumbia 2009).
Views that appear to be conspiratorial at one time may become established or even proven history at others; conversely, established history can turn out at later moments to have been fabricated. It is not the case that merely labeling an idea “conspiracy theory” means it is necessarily untrue.
we might say that Bitcoin activates or executes right-wing extremism, putting into practice what had until recently been theory.
“corporate tyranny, meaning tyranny by unaccountable private concentrations of power, the worst kind of tyranny you can imagine.”
the only equality they are interested in is the ability of each person to empower himself fully against the claims of others.
A person storing their savings or profits from business in Bitcoin has absolutely no reason to expect that that value will be maintained over even a short time frame, and in fact has every reason to expect that it will not.
In this sense, it becomes a tool for existing power to concentrate itself, rather than a challenge to the existing order: as some better economically informed commentators consistently point out, Bitcoin functions much more like a speculative investment than a currency
