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Thanks @ForumBooks and everyone who joined the official launch of #LetThemEatCrypto!
Pick up your ✨SIGNED copy✨ soon from the bound #WhitleyBay, before they're all gone!!! ⏳
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Peter Howson
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Peter Howson
@PeterJHowson
Tech, space, environment & development researcher. Latest book: #LetThemEatCrypto https://t.co/dhxLB9ESLG
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📢I am glad to see this piece out now in New Political Economy!
This article explains the remarkable success of the #crypto ecosystem in #Argentina 🇦🇷, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis and through the lens of the #polycrisis.
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#abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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I am happy to share a recent piece published in @CurrentHistory1 on the New Era of Crypto Authoritarianism, with reflections from the United States, El Salvador, Argentina Russia and Venezuela.
online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…
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Just found kids putting price stickers on every single toy in their bedroom!
They were planning on selling them outside the house to raise money to keep their schools open. 😔
It rained, so sale cancelled
#SaveOurSchool @alancampbellmp @GreenPartyNT tinyurl.com/bp5xz4sr
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Doubt anyone's still here, but if you fancy a meet-up in Barcelona this summer to chat about #NewSpace #SpaceX #PoliticalEcology, sign up below! 🚀🛰️👩🚀
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More award winning🏆 scholarship👇all free! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…
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For the poor in Venezuela, crypto is a makeshift opportunity for survival. For the rich, it's a tool for making quick profits and side-stepping sanctions.
Thoughts from @RosalesAntulio & myself for @The_Dialogue 🇻🇪
drive.google.com/file/d/1LmQ367…
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Because of ESAs 'geographical return principle', every £1 sent by UK Gov to ESA results in £1 back to UK companies. Scrapping UKSA could increase UK spending on space.
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Describing UKSA as 'independent' was a stretch. Nearly all UKSA budget went straight to Euro Space Agency...
bbc.com/news/articles/…
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For context, childminder Lucy Connolly tweeted "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the [refugee] b*stards." While Vylan said, "Free Palestine". @stephenpollard
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Bolivians conned into crypto. With thoughts from me.
reuters.com/world/americas…
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Get your copy of Let Them Eat #Crypto for just 2 real money pounds.
Offer ends in 2 real Earth days!
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Latest from me looking at #SpaceX, #STEMwashing and the #NewSpace industry's jazz hands 'immersion' tactics used to pinch stuff from poor people.
All free today!
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#Bitcoin's still a thing somewhere, says @Telegraph, with thoughts from me!
telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/0…
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We were honoured with this award from Human Geography journal @HGJournal for the best paper published last year.
@PeterJHowson Eva van Roekel @KantersCoco and I are humbled by the recognition.
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Human Geography Publication Awards, 2025 The Institute of Human Geography confers the 2025 Human Geography Publication Awards to the following scholars for their publications in the Human Geography journal: · Best paper: Poor miners and empty e-wallets: Latin American experiences with cryptocurrencies in crisis - Antulio Rosales, Eva van Roekel, Peter Howson, Coco Kanters, 2024 The institutional affiliations of the co-author Antulio Rosales, Eva van Roekel, Peter Howson and Coco Kanters are York University (Toronto, Canada), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and Utrecht University (Utrecht, the Netherlands) respectively. · Best contention: Alienation flows through the barrel of a gun: Despair, mass shootings, and suicide in an American settler colony - Levi Gahman, 2024 The author, Lei Gahman, is from the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK). · Best Review: Geographies of artificial intelligence: Labor, surveillance, and activism - Margath Walker, Jamie L Winders, 2024 Margath Walker and Jamie L Winders are from University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) and Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) respectively. · Best visual intervention: From Jamestown to Bethlehem: Local connections of geopolitical violence - Christabel Devadoss, 2024 Christabel Devadoss is from Middle Tennessee State University (USA). Congratulations!
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While Bitcoin Fuels World Leaders’ Ambitions, Poor Communities and the Environment Pay the Price
My thoughts for JustTech
just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/while…
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This book sucks. Get into the space and see what’s going on instead of printing this dogshit. @PeterJHowson
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Really appreciate this review of #LetThemEatCrypto from @maydaybooksmpls
maydaybookstore.blogspot.com/2025/01/magic-…
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Can crypto, as a decentralised financial system, support social and environmental ideals?
✍️@PeterJHowson analyses the topic in this month’s main story of The Sprout. Read it here: bit.ly/TheSproutFebru…
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