b'underway on both fronts. Dollars issuing forth via bank loans, money flows controlled by the Federal Reserve, trillion-dollar tax regimes, pension fund investment policies, the Prudent Man and the Invisible Hand and Masters of the Universe and the 1%, the greatest wealth inequality since the Great Depressionthere is so much to question, so much to fix. Do we need a whole new kind of money? Is cryptocurrency the answer? As with any technological solution, we must beware of unintended consequences. Just as internet entrepreneurs have, however unwittingly, become new-age robber barons, a similar subversion of benevolent intent is also a risk with cryptocurrency.A future where every transaction, financial or social, public or private, is irrevocably encoded in a public ledger which is utterly transparent to those in power is the very opposite of a democratic, egalitarian crypto utopia. Those are not the paranoid rantings of a disgruntled Luddite. Those are the words of James Bridle in the introduction to The White Paper, Satoshi Nakamotos canonical expo-sition about the design and purpose of bitcoin. He goes on to observe, Bitcoin, in the decade since Satoshi Nakamoto first announced it, has succeeded technologically but failed politically. . .having already been suborned by capital, because of a lack of imagination and education, and a failure to organize ourselves in the service of true liberation, rather than personal enrichment.This precautionary tale was echoed at the conclusion of a recent story on National Public Radio about a hack of some of Twitters largest accounts: They got away with $118,000 of bitcoin, which is anonymous and untraceable. 35'