There’s a lot of writing and thinking about what people now call “crypto” going on. The other day I linked to DSHR’s Blog: EE380 Talk (a talk on “blockchain” technology in my post Paragraph of the Day. There’s a nice summation of that more technical talk by Cory Doctorow: Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022: Externalities.
Particularly worth a watch is the longish, but thorough Line Goes Up: The Problem With NFTs