Digital cash : the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who built cryptocu...
Digital cash : the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who built cryptocu...
Digital cash : the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who built cryptocurrency / Finn Brunton.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/3577
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English
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255 pages ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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; 1...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
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 been untold--until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brun...
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Digital cash : the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who built cryptocurrency / Finn Brunton.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-243) and index.
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G 2019/3577
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74VKVe6qAy0d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVe6qAy0d
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9780691179490 hardcover
0691179492 hardcover
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332.4
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991024252717602626
