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August 26, 2025The Japanese Political Economy

The struggle to become money: Bitcoin and the REC

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SMSergi Cutillas Márquez

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Analysis compares Bitcoin's global traction to the REC's challenges in scale, suggesting implications for radical alternatives.

Key Points

  • Bitcoin achieved global traction through protocol and ideology, while the REC struggled to scale effectively due to lack of structural solidity.
  • The study identifies the contrast between Bitcoin's decentralized emergence and the REC's reliance on planning and participatory governance.
  • Marxist political economy frames the analysis, highlighting value projection and cultural habit formation in monetary development.
  • The findings reveal the strategic conditions necessary for the transformation of radical monetary alternatives in the capitalist landscape.

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Sergi Cutillas Márquez (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af63efad7bf08b1eae4c46https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194x.2025.2551626
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