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    612-822-4611

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Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

Parkin, Jack

Paperback

Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics

PhilosophyInvesting & FinanceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0197515088
ISBN13: 9780197515082
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 17 2020
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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