Digital Cash : : The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency / / Finn Brunton.
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators-from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin 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 lon...
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Frontmatter -- 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 |
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