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Jan 2025
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Having long promised to decentralise power, Bitcoin is looking more and more like it will end up as a tool of American power under Trump.

But blockchains could also be used to empower local economies. And why should the left stay attached to a money system controlled by the state?

Sam Hart is a developer, writer, and editor of the Cryptoeconomic Systems journal. He spoke to Richard Hames about the promises and perils of the new era of blockchain technologies.

Comments, questions, corrections? fm@novaramedia.com

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