Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Finally, the mysterious "Blockchain" subculture defined:
By Nellie Bowles for the Style section of NYTimes.com, Jan. 13
[...] The cryptocurrency community is centered around a tightknit group of friends — developers, libertarians, Redditors and cypherpunks — who have known each other for years through meet-ups, an endless circuit of crypto conferences and internet message boards. Over long hours in anonymous group chats, San Francisco bars and Settlers of Catan game nights, they talk about how cryptocurrency will decentralize power and wealth, changing the world order.
The goal may be decentralization, but the money is extremely concentrated. Coinbase has more than 13 million accounts that own cryptocurrencies. Data suggests that about 94 percent of the Bitcoin wealth is held by men, and some estimate that 95 percent of the wealth is held by 4 percent of the owners.
There are only a few winners here, and, unless they lose it all, their impact going forward will be outsize.
They also remember who laughed at them and when [....]
Comments
Two of the ten article illustrations:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/14/2018 - 8:53pm
Haha, funny sweaters. I want to myself, too, because I constantly read something about crypto-currencies: Krypton Kurrencies. I am very interested in this topic.
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by Addy (not verified) on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:00am