Money code space : hidden power in Bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation / Jack Parkin.
Series: Oxford studies in digital politics: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197515112Subject(s): Bitcoin
| Blockchains (Databases) | Electronic funds transfers | Cryptocurrencies -- Social aspects | Finance -- Social aspects | Finance and Accounting | EconomicsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197515075DDC classification: 332.4 LOC classification: HG1710 | .P36 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. Its underlying architecture, blockchain, is now championed for delivering a decentralised global economy - a world free from hierarchy and control. This text shatters these emancipatory claims by revealing acute 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, Jack Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. Its underlying architecture, blockchain, is now championed for delivering a decentralised global economy - a world free from hierarchy and control. This text shatters these emancipatory claims by revealing acute 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, Jack Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.
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