Even as new details of the Twitter incident are revealed, one thing is pretty clear: after more than a decade of growth cryptocurrency is as socially engineered as the hack itself. The currency promises the world, but what kind of world exactly? Some earlier reading on cryptocurrency.

Further reading:

• From money-laundering to sanctions busting: the real value of cryptocurrency may soon be clear
• Cryptocurrency is radical but who does the radicalism benefit?
• David Golumbia’s book, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism