Bitcoin Explained via Balinese Cockfights: The Similarities Are Uncanny

Written by metamick | Published 2020/08/21
Tech Story Tags: anthropology | cryptocurrency | culture | tech-culture | bitcoin | what-is-bitcoin | hackernoon-top-story | bitcoin-spotlight | web-monetization

TLDR Bitcoin Explained via Balinese Cockfights: The Similarities Are Uncanny.opicopicopic.com explains the social dynamics taking place around cockfight rings can help us understand those around cryptocurrencies. Anthropologists have been recording cockfights since the 1930s. For outsiders to understand different world views, such as those of indigenous populations, or entirely new phenomena, like crypto communities, taking a one-glance-view is simply never enough. To better understand these worlds, we must instead suspend our biases and (dis)beliefs to truly observe what’s happening within.via the TL;DR App

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Written by metamick | Somewhere in the space between people & tech. User researcher, crypto-anthropologist, creative.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/21