In brief
- Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature last week.
- His story links crypto and blockchain with trust, portraying them as systems that ensure authenticity without human intermediaries.
- The narrator argues that “the model already exists in crypto,” presenting it as proof that belief can still structure a broken world.
A short story written by Nobel Prize winning novelist László Krasznahorkai calls cryptocurrency the “best proof” that money is virtual.
Last week, the Swedish Academy awarded the Hungarian novelist the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Krasznahorkai was accorded the honor for what the committee called “a compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of…