Aisha, an intelligent young woman from Lagos, Nigeria, who used to aspire to a life of financial autonomy. Frustrated by her family’s experience with hyperinflation, she knew she had to do something. She leaped into the world of cryptocurrency, seduced by all the shiny new promises of get-rich-quick schemes and...
The headlines scream: Big Tech is bleeding talent to Bitcoin! Recently former employees from Apple, Google, and Cash App all made the move to Austin’s Bitcoin Commons. They’re pumped up by new venture capital financing combined with a friendly political climate for Bitcoin. Trump’s back, the pardons are coming fast...
The narrative around crypto as a revolutionary force democratizing finance is starting to wear thin. They worry about a new type of colonialism called “crypto-colonialism.” This rising techno-colonialism phenomenon sees the Global North, largely thanks to its technological and financial capital, potentially exploiting the Global South, unintentionally or intentionally. This...
Now picture a world where your local currency is about as wobbly as a three-year-old on a pair of roller skates. That is the harsh truth for so many in the Global South. Today, crypto offers that solution too—a digital escape hatch from the hardships of our new economic reality....
