OPED: Crypto, the death of a Queen and the birth of The Merge

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ARCHIVES: Two big media events happened in recent days which were entirely unrelated, other than representing a triumph of planning and execution. The first was codenamed Operation London Bridge – the death of Queen Elizabeth and her subsequent funeral....

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The Merge managed 41,000 real-time viewers of which I was one, with tens of millions more checking in on Twitter for updates. A far smaller audience, to be sure. But with hundreds ofof dollars at stake, I expect The Merge organisers were as least as motivated as the funeral planners, and perhaps more so. I didn’t watch the funeral, but the approximately 15 minutes as The Merge crossed the line and settled was a moving experience, nevertheless.

There was one similarity though, which was the sniping that started quietly and then exploded across social media. On the one hand, the voices of those wishing to blame the Queen for colonialism – a debate I would be wise not to enter – and on the other, those commentators in the very different but also fraught world of crypto-zealotry, who roared their insults and objections around abstractions like decentralisation and deflationary monetary systems.

 

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