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Author: chavenet
It was hard to see how this slave complex could exist without cryptocurrency. Crypto bros like to claim they were somehow helping the poor. But it seemed none of them had bothered to look into the darker consequences of a technology that allowed for anonymous, untraceable payments. From 'Don't You Remember Me?' The Crypto Hell on the Other Side of a Spam Text [Bloomberg; ungated]