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Breaking (Down) The Chain: An Investigation Post-mortem
A concise post-mortem on The Chain series, a deep dive on the creation of the Bitcoin-Dollar system which names the names and explains the technology upholding the deflationary and highly-surveillable digital financial system fast approaching.
The Chain of Consensus: The Cartel Behind The Blockchain
While often pitched as decentralized, the key infrastructure upholding consensus on Ethereum has been dollarized by stablecoin issuers. These same entities, in addition to the currency speculators behind Block.One, were willing partners in the set up and take down of Terra-LUNA and FTX.
“Sustainably” Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature: The Case of O.N.E. Amazon
The architect of BlackRock’s ETFs has teamed up with a group of companies tied to US intelligence and US government debt trading to tokenize the Amazon rainforest and borgify it with a large-scale sensor network in order to create a new form of “digital gold.”
Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends' Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them.
As CBDCs Roll Out, Elite-Backed Digital Payment Systems Vie to Build the “Global Payment Standard”
As Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow. Their end game? A digital financial grid prime for abuse.