When Crypto-Exchanges Go Broke, You’ll Lose It All

The fatal flaw in the ‘neither fish nor fowl’ gambit

Cory Doctorow
OneZero
Published in
6 min readFeb 3, 2022

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A run on the bank as panicked savers demand their cash — Universal History Archive via Getty Images

If you’ve spent much time around cryptocurrency people, you’ve probably heard a rant or two about “sound money” and the need to “depoliticize money.” This is a foundation of blockchainism: the belief that money is born separate from states, and states invade on the private realm when they…

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Cory Doctorow
OneZero

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr