Money code space : hidden power in bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation
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Money code space : hidden power in bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation
（Oxford studies in digital politics / series editor: Andrew Chadwick）
Oxford University Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-280) and index
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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.
Table of 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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