Inês Faria on Crypto as Ritual and Religion
Technical mastery has long been part of religious or spiritual awe, as well as a means to create or strengthen power relations...Bitcoin and all the aura surrounding its creation had this same characteristic.
4 years ago Conversation — 16 min read Inês Faria on Crypto as Ritual and Religion Technical mastery has long been part of religious or spiritual awe, as well as a means to create or strengthen power relations... Bitcoin and all the aura surrounding its creation had this same characteristic. Bitcoin anthropology DAOs reputation The crypto world, with its numerous and rapidly expanding communities, can be very difficult to navigate, let alone understand. For all their insistence on rehabilitating the Homo Oeconomicus through perpetual contracting and economic transactions, many of these communi
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