The Hidden Strategic Codes of Corporate Power in the Cryptocurrency Realm

Technology and money are neither neutral nor apolitical. It is a grave mistake to assume that they can be artificially withdrawn from the overarching cage of power politics. The digital age of fintech, in which the two converge more than ever before as twin pillars of an emerging model, reflects this truth. As the testament of history teaches, both are subordinated to the ironclad dictates of systemic anarchy and zero-sum relational frames.

According to Martin Heidegger, the essence of technology is by no means technological. This cryptic aphorism means that the long-range impact of frontier technological innovations, far from being confined to their instrumental applications, goes further. Technology, as noted by Zbigniew Brzezinski, is a game-changing impersonal force that, by challenging the existing order of things and unlocking disruptive potentialities, brings new grammatical formulas of power relations and operational patterns of strategic behaviors. On the other hand, Oswald Spengler points out that money, in the current Faustian era, is the ultimate vector of dynamism. Money, as the lifeblood of modern civilizations, possesses the Mercurial-like capacity to mobilize all sorts of worldly forces. Once unleashed, the stream of its expansive power cannot be rolled back.