Whatever else you say about bitcoin, it is certainly productive of some interesting thinking about money. @izakaminska idea that ransomeware is to crypto what taxation
The political economy of crypto. Chartbook Newsletter #15 is framed by work from @jp_koning and @stefeich on the political economy of money. Check it out
Bitcoin has seen a huge surge of interest in the last few months, but it is just one subset of the wider development of digital
Good News: China is ending bitcoin mining in Inner Mongolia as of April. = major source of global supply. New Chartbook Newsletter #15 is all
The artificially generated scarcity on which bitcoin proposes to found a new monetary system is one of its truly weird features. Gives rise to bizarre
Digitale Währungsformen wie die Kryptowährung Bitcoin werden gerade zu Zeiten von Corona immer relevanter. Der Wirtschaftshistoriker Adam Tooze bezweifelt allerdings, dass Bitcoin die Währung der
@michaelsderby @sam_a_bell It seems she was taking a rubinite line on fiscal policy v. The Bush admin "She has been an outspoken advocate for fiscal
@michaelsderby @sam_a_bell I totally agree that she was obvious, but still am a bit puzzled how someone so obviously on the left hand side of
Can anyone recommend anything good to read about how Janet Yellen was picked to run the SF Fed in 2004? At that point she was
RT @asgeirberg: @IsJokull @adam_tooze "….Bitcoin’s “solution” is to create an artificial scarcity founded in solving maths problems with…
@benjamindean Does 1970s Europe count?
RT @jraimo: "Crypto is the libertarian spawn of neoliberalism’s efforts to depoliticize money": utterly essential newsletter from @adam_too…
@jraimo Thanks John. I did a revision and added “doomed efforts” 🙂
RT @SeoirseThomais: Excelente texto sobre bitcoin de @adam_tooze. El dinero como relación social y expresión de poder, la política inherent…
RT @PaulTimR: The most convincing piece I've ever read about bitcoin, by @adam_tooze. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…
I was forced to talk about bitcoin this week. On a podcast (in German).
The discussion was triggered by the remarkable surge in bitcoin’s value – the second great surge in the Ur-crypto’s turbulent history since it’s launch on 3 January 2009.
Lisa Splanemann, the journalist with whom I do the podcast, has been pushing the topic for a while. I was reluctant.
Money talk is political talk. We should be selective in the political talk we engage in. I don’t like the politics of crypto/bitcoin.
RT @BrutalHouse: Scrap metal merchants, Commercial St, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets. 1980 via @aflashbak https://t.co/RSHtUJdXWI
RT @AnnPettifor: Excellent post by @adamtooze on Bitcoin. " Crypto is the libertarian spawn of neoliberalism’s efforts to depoliticize mone…
If you believe the surveys, Nigerians are four times more likely to own bitcoin than Americans. Crypto as a means of gambling for redemption. Insights
RT @_SidVerma: My goodness — if this doesn't profoundly underscore why fiscal stimulus is good nothing will.. twitter.com/Rob_Hager/stat…
RT @_gabriel_U: "To paraphrase Gramsci, crypto is the morbid symptom of an interregnum, an interregnum in which the gold standard is dead b…
OUT NOW Chartbook Newsletter #15 In which I read crypto currencies as the spawn of neoliberalism’s ultimately doomed attempt to depoliticize money. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/oNAphT6DZQ
Is 2020 the year that crypto went institutional? @izakaminska asked recently. Chartbook Newsletter #15 follows up with a bunch of reading to guide you through
RT @CaesarAemilius: @ByrneHobart @njtmulder @adam_tooze It is very likely that this scenario happened a few times before throughout time an…
RT @RenardFantastiq: I dabble in BTC. Reading this makes me feel uncomfortable doing so. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @JanosAmmann: Falls ihr euch überlegt, beim Bitcoin-Ponzi-Scheme mitzumachen, lest zuerst diesen exzellent geschriebenen Newsletter von…
RT @MaratMarkert: Chartbook Newsletter #15 by @adam_tooze on Bitcoin and digital currencies. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…
Chartbook Newsletter #15 is all about the political economy of bitcoin. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… For coaching my thanks to my dear friend @stefeich and
RT @adam_tooze: "As Michael Mann observes, ‘‘From Enlightenment to Durkheim most major sociologists omitted war from their central problema…
RT @WitWizKhalifat: @adam_tooze @jp_koning @stefeich @izakaminska Great and interesting newsletter on a subject I equally loath and am fasc…
Gotta admit I was loath to talk about crypto. Then for this podcast I did (in German) inforadio.de/podcast/feeds/… The reading was kinda interesting. H/t in
RT @MGSchmelzer: @heimbergecon @adam_tooze So well put by @adam_tooze. On neoliberal efforts to reinstate anti-democratic monetary politics…
RT @firoozye: Talking (and Reading) About Bitcoin – Chartbook Newsletter #15 by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…
RT @MGSchmelzer: "To paraphrase Gramsci, crypto is the morbid symptom of an interregnum, an interregnum in which the gold standard is dead…
RT @BJMbraun: Is calling for ECB-led debt cancellation a progressive agenda? @benjlemoine & @MonnetEric & I say no. Austerity would lurk ar…
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