CJP, Bitcoin, and the Protest That Never Needed a Street - Gopal Bansal
It's been a while since I've written anything sociological. For the past few months I've been buried in a book, one dedicated to the people who shaped me, the ones who never made it into anyone's acknowledgements page before. It's a slow book, meditative, or at least trying to be, though I won't pretend I've moved through the writing of it half as calmly as the book itself asks its reader to. But some part of me hasn't stopped being a student of everything else. Global politics, history, philosophy, literature, technology, sociology, whatever refuses to sit still long enough to be filed under one subject. For the past year I've been quietly journaling something I couldn't stop noticing: how the protests erupting around me seem to rhyme with the rise of cryptocurrency, and why Bitcoin might not be separate from this generational story at all. It might be the truest expression of it. This is that journal, finally put into words. It started, as ...