{"product_id":"unstoppable-markets-financialization-neutrality-and-the-limits-of-decentralization-9798996381906","title":"Unstoppable Markets: Financialization, Neutrality, and the Limits of Decentralization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrypto has failed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was supposed to be a tool used to enhance our freedoms. Instead, it has extracted wealth and eroded trust through unregulated financial products. If you maintain a tunnel and it's used to help free slaves or as part of a resistance movement, you should keep doing so. If the tunnel is used to traffic children and weapons for cartels, you should probably stop maintaining the tunnel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's noble to want a tunnel that's not racist and doesn't charge exorbitant fees. That might have been the original goal. But somewhere along the way, the tunnel became neutral toward the goal and even the people who built it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is that story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough vivid stories and personal examples, the book explores how the hypermarket structures of crypto have failed time and again to provide real utility to the societies they interact with. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the insider critique of the economic underpinnings of the entire crypto industry. It shows that \u003cstrong\u003eneutrality and financialization are failures. \u003c\/strong\u003eHinting at broader political lessons, the question is not whether crypto has failed, but what we can learn about markets, money, and the systems we're building next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unstoppable Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996381906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d","brand":"Nicholas Fett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801373044917,"sku":"9798996381906","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unstoppable-markets-financialization-neutrality-and-the-limits-of-decentralization-9798996381906","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}