General purpose technologies can be used for good or ill, for serious or frivolous purposes. The internet is the home to cat videos and the sum total of human knowledge. The crypto world has more than its fair share of memecoins and sh*tcoins, which some dismiss and others consider a deep reflection of the global attention economy. The roots of crypto a…
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