Money Code Space: Hidden Power In Bitcoin, Blockchain, And Decentralisation
Jack Parkin
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.
سال:
2020
اشاعت:
1st Edition
ناشر کتب:
Oxford University Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
297
ISBN 10:
0197515118
ISBN 13:
9780197515075
سیریز:
Oxford Studies In Digital Politics
فائل:
PDF, 6.12 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020