Hidden Forces
Description
In Episode 171, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Katharina Pistor, a leading legal expert on money & finance and a prominent commentator on cryptocurrencies who has dealt extensively with issues of digital statehood and monetary sovereignty.
She explains how the law is used to code and construct capital, protecting some assets over others, how the digital code could displace it, and how the use and abuse of the legal code can make the difference between societal cohesion and political revolution.