Cathy Reisenwitz: Separating Bitcoin, social issues ‘hinders our understanding’ of them
The idea that Bitcoin and crypto-currency is somehow unrelated to the social would have to rest upon the contention that concerns like access to credit, global poverty and oppressive regimes are not social issues. On the contrary, there is nothing more social than a voluntarily transaction. And giving more people worldwide access to mutually beneficial exchange is one of the most important social issues a system could take on. Cathy Reisenwitz, editor at Young Voices and chief blogger at Sex and the State, wrote the above lines in a piece for Bitcoin Magazine in February. Her writing and....
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On Saturday, October 6, Cathy Reisenwitz spoke on why a free society needs free money. Cathy serves as a D. C. -based writer and political commentator, working at Reason Magazine. She is Editor in Chief of Sex and the State, is a Young Voices Associate and writes regularly for Doublethink magazine and Thoughts on Liberty. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, the AFF Free the Future blog, the Individualist Feminist, and Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist. One of her passions is investigating the role of Bitcoin social evolution. Cathy's talk follows. Cathy....
This morning, I awoke to an individual on Twitterletting me know, in no uncertain terms, that bitcoin and social issues were unrelated. Since literally everything is related to everything else in some way, I'll assume what he meant is that bitcoin and social issues are particularly far apart in terms of overlap. This is of course absurd. While "social issues" is a term which needs to be defined prior to further discussion, the "social issues" that particularly interest me are issues of poverty, class, mobility, equality of opportunity and access to resources. Access to banking and....
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