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Money Code Space: Hidden Power In Bitcoin, Blockchain, And Decentralisation

By Jack Parkin

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
0197515088, 9780197515082, 0197515096, 9780197515099, 019751510X, 9780197515105, 0197515118, 9780197515112, 019751507X, 9780197515075
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6417664 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies In Digital Politics
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
297\297
Time added
2020-11-28 19:58:20
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Description

Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy--a world free from hierarchy and control. In their eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the dawn of decentralisation. Money Code Space shatters these emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new framework for revealing the geographies of power that lie behind blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon Valley to London, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.

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