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“[Puerto Rico] soon became a highly contested sandbox for cryptocurrencies. For Jillian Crandall, a researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, these crypto-colonialist projects might be called “disaster capitalism.” Yet state-adverse tech companies typically tout the advantages of evading taxes via cryptocurrencies as a means of encouraging foreign investment and an entrepreneurial spirit among the locals.”
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Read more here: Pete Howson, “The Headache of ‘Crypto Colonialism'” in Coindesk, https://www.coindesk.com/the-headache-of-crypto-colonialism
