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从左派视角看，加密货币不是货币，哈哈。

“在第一部分中，我们将探讨加密货币作为货币的想法，这是推动比特币存在的最初想法。对这些说法进行批判性分析，不难看出比特币和一般的加密货币不是货币。然而，它不是钱的事实可能是一件好事，尤其是对于其激进的政治潜力。”

作者认可的观点是：This is not to say that bitcoin is completely useless other than for speculating on price. Some of the things that make it not viable as money make it advantageous for other things that radicals are interested in. Bitcoin may not be money as such, but it certainly can do some of the same things that money can, which makes it, alongside other cryptocurrencies, a useful tool, something which will be detailed throughout the rest of the book. First, let’s take a closer look into how bitcoin does simulate particular properties of money.

作者举了SciHub的例子，论证加密货币可以被用于反抗不公的资本主义制度，哈哈：Having the option to accept or use cryptocurrencies comes in handy when you may have legitimacy for your cause (people want to support it) but are considered illegal at the behest of capitalist institutions. In the case of Sci-Hub, it has legitimacy in challenging the current structure of how science publishing is done today as well as the entire existence of intellectual property in general, but this challenge comes at the cost of financial blockade, especially in countries that have the most to gain from intellectual property enforcement.

作者也谈到了代码即法律，甚至去中心化的法院，并把defi理解为影子银行，哈哈。

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在作者的理解里，DAO和马克思主义的左派实践是可以对接的：

What’s interesting about many definitions of DAOs is how closely they brush up against collectivist tendencies and the political goals of community-ownership, transparent governance and direct democratic organisation, all of which are relevant for the left. However, while DAOs are an interesting, novel tool for coordinating over digital space, they don’t have a clear political movement behind them to define the trajectory. There are seeds of a politics that is interested in decentralisation in one form or another, but this lack of clear political messaging is a reason why it’s been so easy for Silicon Valley venture capitalists to co-opt DAOs through what gets dubbed the “Ownership Economy”. This means that for many people, the first time they are exposed to the term is through the lens of venture capitalism. This makes it difficult for more progressive-minded people to take the idea seriously when these types of attempts only seek to give a “feeling of ownership” rather than ownership itself.

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简单扫读，作者还是不主张禁止加密货币的，而是认为这对左派也有价值。换言之，加密货币和区块链对少数派确实就是有价值的。在西方，激进左派显然是少数派，哈哈。