Jack Parkin

Money Code Space

Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

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Produktbeschreibung

Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. Its underlying architecture, blockchain, is now championed for delivering a decentralised global economy--a world free from hierarchy and control. Money Code Space shatters these emancipatory claims by revealing acute 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, Jack Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780197515082
• ISBN-10: 0197515088
• Artikelnr.: 59503931

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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