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Opinion

The Decentralized Mystique

New academic research on Bitcoin’s early years undermines its foundational myths of privacy through pseudonymity and decentralization, Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl write.

Like the Biblical story of Moses, Bitcoin’s decentralization is a powerful motivating idea. But is it true? (Paramount Pictures/Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

After DeFi, DeSoc: Finding Web 3’s Soul

By using Web 3’s building blocks to represent social identity, the ecosystem can overcome its current limitations and bring about a decentralized society.

(Greg Rakozy/Unsplash)

Markets

Smashing Through Surveillance Capitalism With Blockchain

The founders of RadicalxChange argue that we need to focus on the political economy if we want technologies like blockchain to produce better social outcomes.

Glen Weyl, founder and chair, and Jack Henderson, co-founder and president, of RadicalxChange

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