> “As ugly as the public provision of money can sometimes be, its digital privatization is all too likely to be vastly worse” — Frank Pasquale reviews three recent books examining the laissez-faire ideology of monetary technophilia: David Golumbia’s The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, Finn Brunton’s Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency, and Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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