Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy

2026/07/30 by Owen Marshall · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Public Spaces through Art

paper · doi:10.1080/09505431.2026.2710284

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Citations

• What was Bitcoin, what will it be? The techno-economic imaginaries of a new money technology
• The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence

Discussions

• 📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 d [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]