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Rachel O'Dwyer on Tokens, NFTs, and Bitcoin

Why platform capitalism is coming for your money.

13 December 2023

Rachel O'Dwyer on Tokens, NFTs, and Bitcoin

Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities?

In this video Rachel O'Dwyer, author of Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, discusses digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy with Nathaniel Tkacz.

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Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms...

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