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The Dig: Private Money with Stefan Eich

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Bidcoin Culture

There's obviously a libertarian heritage here, but there's also a whole world of techno ideology that infuses bidcoin culture. The cypher punks hoped to create a new society of networkd anonimity, pseudonimity and privacy. Their contemporary fellow travellers of philosophical subculture called the extropians, hoped for far more. They saw themselves not in the twilight of ruin, writing out the failure of the modern order, but as the lerant of a new age of post human flourishing to come.

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