A very helpful history of how capitalist libertarianism, Silicon Valley and Trump’s authoritarian movement join forces in making crypto-currency their main fuel, by Finn Brunton, a professor of science and technology studies at the University of California-Davis and the author of “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/crypto-trump-libertarianism-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.tjwF.4OoEU0ck6zTZ&smid=url-share #crypto #cryptocurrency #trump #maga #authoritarianism #thiel