Bitcoin’s Increasing Value Is Its Real Failure

The technology is fine, but its speculative bias reveals something sad about our relationship with money

Douglas Rushkoff
Marker
Published in
4 min readAug 12, 2021

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As those of us who were around will remember, Bitcoin emerged out of the same spirit as Occupy Wall Street. Those of us holding seminars about economic power in Zuccotti Park were thrilled by the possibility of a…

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Douglas Rushkoff
Marker
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Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm