Services known as Cryptocurrency “Tumblers” obfuscate the provenance, possession, and movement of cryptocurrencies through a process of “mixing” . While this speaks to the cryptoanarchist philosophical roots of cryptocurrencies, it poses various forms of risks, particularly those...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) provide rapid access to capital for new ventures, but suffer from drawbacks relating to non-regulation, considerable risk, and non-accountability, which has created controversy and raised questions about the mechanisms for regulation in an era of emergent...

The aim of this paper is to contextualize the collapse of FTX in light of elite capture and elite networks, which promulgated an outsized impression of the cryptoexchange, only to see it crashing down in November, 2022. The paper is concerned with four elite categories: (1) celebrities, (2)...

The aim of this paper is to lay due emphasis on the stark contrast between the philosophy of cryptoanarchism that inspired cryptocurrencies on the one hand, and the oligarchic corporatism of FTX, the now defunct cryptoexchange. The paper highlights that the mismatch between both has led to the...

The aim of this paper is to contextualize the collapse of FTX in light of the deeper problem of cryptoexchanges. Within the domain of cryptocurrencies, whose technological basis is imbued with trustlessness and decentralization, cryptoexchanges are in fact premised on human agency and trust, and...

The recent divulgence of the Panama Papers (2016) has caused an uproar for the brazen tax avoidance and evasion practices that powerful interest groups employ, even without ostensibly breaching legal frameworks, much to the detriment of fiscal outcomes, and certainly to the disregard of tax...

A certain myth has emerged about hyperpolyglots as representing an almost exclusively male preserve. This paper questions this claim by using the membership of the International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA), a large sample (n=162), finding that there is sufficient gender diversity to...

The International Association of Hyperpolyglots has come to embody a distinct and vibrant ethos within the wider sphere of linguistic praxis that might be described as ‘anarchist’ insofar as it exemplifies certain core aspects of anarchist philosophy (see Cahill 1989). This paper identifies...

The aim of this paper is to consider the role of legislative oversight of the cryptocurrency domain and it observes that there has been a growing legislative interest in understanding the socioeconomic role of cryptocurrencies. It further observes that the US Congress in light of recent debacles...

The fervent global quest for the development of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) begs the frightening questions: who will go first in receiving it? and will everyone get to receive it at all? This working paper seeks to highlight the risk that mercantilist market-logic...