Blockchain: The White Man’s Burden
17 min readFeb 21, 2020
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Note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk delivered at The White West III: Automating Apartheid (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, Feb 13–14, 2020). A fuller version with complete references is in preparation for the conference proceedings.
Abstract
In the developed world, blockchain promoters insist the technology will solve what they call problems of governance, finance and trust, though…