Juan S. Guse’s new e book about crypto boys and the “Web3” | EUROtoday

A e book solely about males. Not a single lady happens, no little one, at most within the background, not as an performing, speaking determine. In his new e book, Juan S. Guse solely writes about males. From as we speak. At a sure age, between twenty and forty. They are referred to as “crypto boys”, however these boys don’t like to listen to that as a result of they’ve grow to be the topic of courtroom processes, however above all of memes, by which ladies of the identical age make enjoyable of them: how the boys clarify to them with nice speeches why they spend money on digital currencies, child. And however should borrow the cash from their infants.

But as a result of these males U40 need nothing lower than the overthrow of the present techniques of cash and work and have sufficient scandals and chapter with the time period “crypto”, and since additionally it is about being taken severely on the planet of oldsters, as a result of these mother and father are sitting on the political levers till additional discover, the actors now choose to talk of “web3” in the event that they clarify their factor.

Guse additionally tells of this on this new, barely 2 hundred pages lengthy textual content, for which he hung out with some crypto boys. On a mountain. At a congress. At a campsite in Denmark. To perceive what they need and why they’re as they’re. And to put in writing as we speak a small story of digital monetary capitalism – and the behaviors that he has skilled. Because this not solely contains thick watches and superyachts.

“Young men who believed in improving their lives through good decisions” are the figures in Guse’s reportage essay. With investments in cryptocurrencies similar to Bitcoin you may get very, very, very wealthy. The males who met the guse for “a thousand times as much money as now” and with whom he additionally talked about the correct e book title for his analysis are additionally: very, very wealthy. (“Eighteen” is considered one of them.)

But all of them drive outdated vehicles anyway. If not indiscriminately: Saab-combi, Middle Ages Bulli, as a result of these very particular, auratic outdated vehicles are additionally a forex in themselves. Guse’s males – Basti, Arne, Malte – additionally prefer to go climbing. You have tattoos. And all of their very own personal sphere developed by which means in life. One even believes in Jesus. They are sympathetic and insufferable and have a thousand instances as a lot cash as most males of their age.

Juan S. Guse, alternatively, misplaced cash. He invested 2000 euros in Ohm, a digital forex that, because the promise of politics, regulates itself, is extra inflated and will someday substitute the US greenback as a number one forex. Guse’s misplaced 2000 euros are actually spirited like a small leitmotif by way of his already floating textual content. Actually, he’s sitting on his third novel-from which he had learn on the Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt three years in the past, the story of an ethnological expedition into the Taunus and so promising gentle and really easy and Trickythat Guse obtained the viewers award for it on the time.

That he now by some means merely has this new e book in between, with the studying of which you continually should go to phrases (Bullrun High) and acronyms (Hodl) and names (Sergey Nazarov) with which Guse works in a contract method: on the one hand, this shies. On the opposite hand, it makes the anticipation for the ready novel. The jargon is essential for the crypto sphere, it doesn’t form the character, it’s the character.

“I understand that you can become addicted to it,” writes Guse as soon as, “after this specific pride of esoteric knowledge, after the sovereign use of sacred vocabulary and concepts. A brain result full of incorporated capital that you can not only convert into economic capital what a feeling of security is, but can also be a source of recognition.”

Against the jargon and the self-inspection of the crypto boys to have the ability to create the world of tomorrow from the ability of freely movable cash, the skilled sociologist Guse holds a textual content that unfolds his quiet energy by not talking in formulation and slogans. But permits skepticism and amazement, shock additionally to search out some huge cash attention-grabbing about it. In the tip, Guse now not finds out of the halls of a congress of the crypto boys-and thus an attractive metaphor for a self-referential, technocratic, digital world that has began to vary the actual world.

Juan S. Guse, “a thousand times as much money as now”. Verlag S. Fischer, 192 pages, 23 euros.