Blockchain Chicken Farm

Blockchain Chicken Farm

And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

Xiaowei Wang

Blockchain, like an authoritarian regime, uses a parallel logic: people cannot be trusted in a free market, and bad actors are intrinsic to a social system. In order to mediate trust, a technical infrastructure is better than a government; governments are made up of fallible people, whereas technical infrastructure works automatically. Instead of the government moderating trust, blockchain does so with machines.
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