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Of Stewardship and Speculation

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The four papers preceding this essay treated cryptocurrency as a financial and technological question: what it is, why it attracts fraud, what specific schemes circulate within it, and how a person who chooses to participate can do so with … Continue reading →

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Participating Safely In Cryptocurrency If You Choose To

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The three preceding papers in this series have laid out, in turn, what cryptocurrency is and what it promises, why the field attracts unusual concentrations of fraud, and what specific forms that fraud takes. A reader who has followed … Continue reading →

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A Field Guide to Crypto Scams

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The previous paper in this series argued that cryptocurrency attracts unusual concentrations of fraud because of a combination of structural features — irreversibility, pseudonymity, global reach, near-zero token creation costs — and cultural ones — tribal communities, influencer-driven information, … Continue reading →

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Why Crypto Is a Magnet for Fraud

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The first paper in this series argued that cryptocurrency emerged from serious questions about money, trust, and individual autonomy, and that it has partially delivered on some of its founding promises while falling short of others. That paper deliberately … Continue reading →

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The Promise of Cryptocurrency

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction Few financial innovations of the past two decades have generated as much heat, and as little light, as cryptocurrency. To its advocates it is the foundation of a freer monetary order; to its critics it is a speculative mania … Continue reading →

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