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> is this heavy on marketing, cheerleading and kool-aid?

I haven't looked at the book, but the author is, a bit. Here's a somewhat banana-pants talk he recently gave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8



Gold-bug has at times been used as a pejorative against people who criticized central banking and favored gold.

I wonder what pejorative will be coined for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Banana-pants is just too broad. /s


I'm a cryptocurrency enthusiast myself. To be more precise, the talk is ignorant of the history of money as a system of domination, and utopian in that it ignores critical vulnerabilities intrinsic to distributed-consensus currency systems.

I wrote about it in a little more detail here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/73fi5q/mone...




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