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The Dig: Private Money with Stefan Eich

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Is It a Currency or a Form of Gambling?

The idea that this is a kind of low entry cost, potential lottery ticket to get rich. The association with and of stability, the kind of universal exchange or that seems to play a very little role in the idea of this being your ticket out ow. I don't think currency is doing much, much labour there. It's not entirely clear to me that currency plays much of a rule,. Buti rint ta currency, i'm adopting the currency of the future, and i get rewarded for being a kind of early doptor, being believer in this project. And so it continues to perform some ideological work of providing a narrative of why what you're doing isn't just simply gambling

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