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Cryptocurrency Explained: Money as a System-of-Control
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Andreas Antonopoulos argues that money has a fourth function beyond store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account, which is as a system of control. He covers the history of money and why it does not flow freely.
Cited in discussions of cryptocurrency, KYC/AML and financial surveillance as a framing of money as a tool of control.
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