Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political
movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of
libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their
promotion of anonymity and individualism, there's no doubt that they
seamlessly slot into the prevailing anti-State ideology. But in this
book Mark Alizart argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes
well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow us 'to appropriate
collectively the means of monetary production', to paraphrase Marx, and
to replace 'the government of persons by the administration of things',
as Engels advocated, they form the basis for a political regime that
begins to look like a communism which has at last come to fruition - a
cryptocommunism.