What’s the deal with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? Depending on whom you ask, they are either energy-sucking, climate-destroying Ponzi schemes that facilitate illegal activity, or they are a key part of the future of global finance. Whatever they are, the Trump administration has made it a priority to promote them, for example by creating a U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve. As a longtime crypto skeptic myself, I wanted to talk to someone close to the industry who could challenge my view by making the strongest case possible for crypto. Enter my UW colleagues Brad Rettler and Andrew Bailey, co-authors (along with Craig Warmke) of the best-selling book: Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin. Bradley Rettler is an Associate Professor of Philosophy here at the University of Wyoming. Andrew Bailey is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, but he will soon be joining our faculty at the University of Wyoming as well. We discuss their book, and the arguments for and against bitcoin.

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