Digital cash : the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who built cryptocurrency / Finn Brunton.
Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The passing current; 1. Speculating with money; 2. Secure paper; 3. Recognizable without being known; 4. Blinding factor; 5. Collapse of governments; 6. Permanent frontiers; 7. Nanosecond suitcase; 8. Hayek in biostasis; 9. Future desires; 10. Emergency money; 11. Escape geographies; 12. Desolate earth; Conclusion: Sometime in the future; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.