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.
| ISBN: | 9780197515082 |
| Publication date: | 16th October 2020 |
| Author: | Jack Parkin |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Studies in Digital Politics |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Political economy |
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.
Money, Code, Space features in the following genres: Social and political philosophy, Political economy
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Money, Code, Space was written by Jack Parkin and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA
Money, Code, Space has 312 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series
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