The Internet is a dataphagic entity. All of its functions in society are based on its inherent drive to accumulate data.
If you really get down to it, the logic of computer programming is written in the languages of business and of demonology.
The entire digital world is built on capitalist logic. Cryptocurrency is a natural and inevitable evolution of this world, just as it is natural for a tadpole to grow into a frog.
Liminal States 