What’s It Worth? The Future of Money & Finance
What if the real crisis in our financial system isn't a hack, a crash, or a currency war, but the erosion of the social contract that money was built on?
In this week's Anthropology of Technology pod, we trace the full arc of money, from gift economies and shell bead currency, to Bitcoin's 2008 whitepaper and the promise of seamless open banking, all to ask what money actually is and what it looks like in the next era.
We get into why the real innovation isn't the protocol or the token, but the social contract underneath it all, and what rebuilding that contract might look like for everyday people, builders, and regulators alike.
Our only note: the future of money has never been a technology question, but a question about what we value and how we relate to each other.