Money Code Space

Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

Jack Parkin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-751508-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Jack Parkin is an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, where he researches the political economy of cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystems. His ethnographic work focuses on points of control in digital networks, analysing software development models, technical infrastructure, and start-up industries. He also provides consultancy services for automation and distributed ledger solutions internationally.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-751508-8 / 0197515088
ISBN-13	978-0-19-751508-2 / 9780197515082
Zustand	Neuware