• Nastasia Hadjadji has published "No Crypto", a book very critical of Bitcoin and other cryptos.
  • For her, behind their cool image, these cryptoassets undermine the power of states and make the bed of populism.
  • Invited by 20 Mint au Carré, the author and journalist was able to answer questions and objections from the Web3 community of 20 Minutes.

Is Bitcoin right-wing? For our guest, journalist and author Nastasia Hadjadji, the answer is obvious: "yes". In her book with the explicit title, No Crypto (16 €, editions Divergences), she goes further and traces a link between the political thought of the founders of Bitcoin and the American alt-right or European populism.

"Technologies are political, although we often tend to think of them as neutral," says Nastasia Hadjadji. They are based on ideological matrices that are the work of those – because they are often men – who design them. »

Bitcoin victim of its supporters

A currency carried on the baptismal font by cypherpunks, activists worried about state and corporate intrusions into our digital privacy, Bitcoin is now fervently supported by supporters of the Austrian school of economics, a current that values savings and is wary of monetary manipulation by central banks.

But cryptocurrencies, by making blockchains possible, are also at the heart of many experiments in decentralization of power, international coordination or demonstrations of solidarity. Should we throw the crypto baby out with the bathwater of its most sulphurous supporters? Can we imagine a positive role for Bitcoin? The answer above in the replay of 20 Mint au Carré, the Web3 show of 20 Minutes...

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