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On this week’s episode of The Verso Podcast we’ll be taking a close look at the history of tokens across time, and the cultures that have grown up around them in the digital age. Rachel O’Dwyer and Edward Ongweso join our host, Eleanor Penny, to talk Bored Apes, art markets, Ponzi schemes and butter tokens.
You can find Rachel's book "Tokens:
The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" here: tinyurl.com/4jk9zk69
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