I'm part of a think tank (not for or against Bitcoin) speculating on what, from an analytic/continental philosophy tradition. Stuff like: Universality and its species: The Market is the empty universal element that contains the Money Market (aka banks, hedge funds and day traders) but also its species of particulars that fail to be contained by the Money Market: the Real Economy. The Real Economy concerns the production, purchase and flow of goods and services within an economy. (Laclau). Crypto is the antagonism between the particular element (The Market) which hegemonizes universality and the element (the Real Economy) which, within this universality stands for what is excluded from it.