Dávila’s “Blockchain Radicals” argues that the left ought to embrace blockchain. Here’s my 2 part review. The first critiques the book’s approach to argumentation, and the second examines Dávila’s own Breadchain Cooperative.

This is my longest post yet because the theory the book presents is palatable to developers. It does to political theory what tech people always do: Confidently assume their skills apply in a field they don’t bother to understand. The consequences are predictable. This, then, is an intervention directed at that mode of thinking, an examination of how bad theory leads to bad practice, and, most importantly, an attempt to stop would-be activists from getting caught up in this mess.

tl;dr Breadchain’s use of the term “cooperative” is fraudulent, and it is, structurally, a grift, whatever his intentions might be.