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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026

AI is the biggest bubble in human history, worse even than the South Sea Bubble: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_S... And like those earlier bubbles, some of our modern bubbles will leave behind nothing, while others will leave behind some productive residue. 16/

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South Sea Company - Wikipedia

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026

Take the cryptocurrency bubble. Crypto will go to zero, and when it does, all it will leave behind is shitty monkey JPEGs and even worse Austrian economics: www.web3isgoinggreat.com As with Enron, you *can* find *some* productive residue from cryptocurrency if you look hard enough. 17/

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Web3 is Going Just Great

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026

A lot of programmers have had a heavily subsidized education in Rust programming and cryptographic fundamentals, both of which are unalloyed goods in our otherwise very insecure digital world. Some of the underlying mechanisms from the crypto are useful, even without blockchains. 18/

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Doug Mohney @dougontech.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I thought Crypto is on the Quantum Death timeline.

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