Book No Crypto, Makassar

Bitcoin and the magical "currencies" of the Internet have aroused fervor, often tinged with fanaticism, but also mistrust and even rejection. To shed critical light on the "cryptocurrency" phenomenon, this book travels the globe, from the Californian Cypherpunks, Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, the Bitcoin "mines" of Kazakhstan and Texas, to the crypto offensives in El Salvador, Puerto Rico and Africa. He lifts the veil on the economic failures of an industry that has spawned numerous scandals, as well as on the ecological aberration it represents. These stories also provide an opportunity to analyze the ideological underpinnings of a technology that its detractors see as a Trojan horse for reactionary thinking.