Protests, privacy, and a global macro narrative
How larger market narratives are crashing into bitcoin
A key theme from last week's Senate Banking Committee hearing was the sense that, like it or not, cryptocurrency was an inevitable force. On this top 5 summary of Long Reads Sunday, we look at that plus how the global macro narrative is converging with Bitcoin, why the internet hasn't evolved in a way that is free and open (and how that could change) and why digital privacy is the political issue of our time. Full countdown:
5. From the Senate Banking Committee hearings: a sense of inevitability?
4. The significance of the macro-economic moment
3. How the macro narrative is converging with the bitcoin narrative
2. Why the internet didn't develop as free or as open as we hoped
1. Digital privacy as the political issue of our time.
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