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Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation


Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

Paperback by Parkin, Jack (Adjunct Fellow, Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University)

Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

£25.49

ISBN:
9780197515082
Publication Date:
16 Oct 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Pages:
302 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 16 - 18 May 2024
Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

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.

Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Pandora's Blocks 2. Money/Code/Space 3. Follow the Digital Thing 4. Building the Future 5. Programming Politics 6. Grounding Cryptocurrencies 7. Embedded Centralism 8. Blueprinting Blockchains Conclusion Appendices References Index

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