This piece opens a dialogue between two esoteric calculation systems: astrology and cryptocurrency. ‘Encrypted Signals in the Ecliptic Indicate the Ascendent Financial System Lacks A Stable Center’ presents an unconventional depiction of Bitcoin’s natal chart where the ascendent line is in constant flux.

Natal charts are typically anchored to a single point in space and time, but applying this convention to decentralized networks like Bitcoin raises complications. Classically, an astrological chart or horoscope is constructed around the time and place of an individual’s birth; financial astrology extends this practice to market commodities by treating companies like individuals. The decentralization of the Bitcoin network poses a unique challenge to this process because its location is not easily represented as a single point in space.

Typically, the line between the ascendent and descendant points in a horoscope relates to the horizon from the perspective of the native. In this work, the ascendent line twists and rotates to indicate the uncertainty of Bitcoin’s place of inception, and allude to the role of astrological predictions and cryptocurrency-based wealth as both tools for managing uncertainty and risk. This indeterminacy disrupts financial astrology’s typical function as a tool for providing traders with divine knowledge of the future of the market and gaining a competitive advantage.

ENCRYPTED SIGNALS IN THE ECLIPTIC INDICATE THE ASCENDENT FINANCIAL SYSTEM LACKS A STABLE FUTURE

Bad Capitalist invites website visitors to mine cryptocurrency on their office computer during working hours as an attempt to generate reparations for the unfair compensation capitalism provides in exchange for labor. https://badbadcapitalist.com/

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