Meanwhile, a cluster of servers in the IT department of the Museum of Modern Art is quietly mining the Monero cryptocurrency. In a comparable process of alchemy, computer servers are encrypting and decrypting information. The resulting tokens will be converted to US dollars and then be passed on to the Immigrant Bail Fund in order to quicken the churning of incarcerated individuals from detention into freedom. Information into tokens, tokens into money, money into bonds, bonds into bodies, bodies into blood into language into culture – the circulation of which is capital.
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