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Rick Falkvinge
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Rick Falkvinge appears as a passing reference in the course materials, mentioned in the context of cyberlibertarian advocates celebrating Bitcoin's price surges as validation of their ideological commitments. The excerpts use him to illustrate the tension between Bitcoin's contradictory positioning—simultaneously promoted as stable money and as speculative investment—and the broader political problem of how techno-utopian ideologies resist empirical falsification even when faced with evidence of their internal contradictions.
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