The Crypto-Trader (archetype)

The digital black market

Agorism, gone online.

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An archetype for agorism's digital descendants: the trader who uses cryptocurrency and encrypted markets to exchange beyond state reach — counter-economics for the internet age.

social

Permissionless, individualist, cosmopolitan.

economic

Peer-to-peer, untaxed, uncensorable exchange via cryptography.

governance

Routes around the state rather than confronting it.

Notable for

Crypto counter-economics
Permissionless exchange
Agorism, digitised

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