U.S. Academic Condemns Bitcoin and Blockchain as Promoting Right-Wing Extremism
A U.S. author and academic has written a book on how bitcoin supports the spread of extreme right-wing political views in a deceptive manner, claiming distributed ledger technology’s resistance to centralized control is an extreme right-wing concept. David Golumbia, an assistant professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University’s English department, denounced bitcoin in a blog post titled, “Trump, Clinton and the Electoral Politics of Bitcoin.” Golumbia also recently published a book, “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism.” An Insidious Force. Golumbia claims bitcoin....
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David Golumbia, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, an aspiring political pundit, and the author of the recently published book, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism, denounces Bitcoin in a recent blog post titled Trump, Clinton, and the Electoral Politics of Bitcoin. “[What] concerns me about Bitcoin is how it contributes to the spread of deeply right-wing ideas in economics and political philosophy without those right-wing associations being made at all explicit,” says Golumbia, adding that the freedom and....
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