The Theological Conquest of Money
The messianic power hidden in bitcoin and how it can save the world “All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil.” — Carl Schmitt, On Continue reading »
The Sovereign, The Subject, and Crypto-power
Political life in the digital panopticon of the modern age “The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, Continue reading »
The Political Theology of Crypto
Crypto is a religion insofar that statism is also a religion.
Cryptosovereignty
Cryptosovereignty is the personal power, economic liberty, and political praxis that exist in bitcoin directly, crypto assets generally, and the internet widely. It is the power of any single human — no matter their station of birth, class of wealth, or creed of faith — to choose to put their economic, social, and political rights into a new digital common-wealth that is inviolable and beyond the power of any and all governments to violate.
Crypto, Truth and Power
Understanding crypto through Foucault’s bio-power and the paradigm of total war I want to start from the hypothesis that bitcoin and crypto assets are explicit military Continue reading »
The New Social Contract of Crypto
How crypto assets are creating a new kind of agreement that departs from the problems of sovereignty by banishing violence in exchange for economic enforcement. In order Continue reading »
The Poverty of Tokens
The tokenization of everything won’t change anything if the revolutionary nature of crypto is lost. Since the early days of bitcoin there has been the ‘tokenization’ Continue reading »