Money code space : hidden power in Bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation /

Money code space : hidden power in Bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation /

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Author / Creator:Parkin, Jack, author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in digital politics
Oxford scholarship online
Oxford studies in digital politics.
Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:
Bitcoin.
Blockchains (Databases)
Electronic funds transfers.
Cryptocurrencies -- Social aspects.
Finance -- Social aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12686919
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ISBN:9780197515112 (ebook) : No price
Notes:Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 15, 2020).
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.
Target Audience:Specialized.
Other form:Print version : 9780197515075

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