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When the cryptocurrency bubble burst in early 2018, many commentators became dubious about the merits of cryptocurrencies. Understandably, they asked the question: Do cryptocurrencies herald a revolution, or not? This is not a simple question. It provokes other questions, which in turn lead to more: Can cryptocurrencies become real currencies, like the dollar or the euro? In fact, what exactly is a currency? Exactly what's new about blockchain technology-what can it do? Which businesses can exploit it? Can cryptocurrencies undermine the big Internet ad giants like Facebook and Google? Can…mehr

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When the cryptocurrency bubble burst in early 2018, many commentators became dubious about the merits of cryptocurrencies. Understandably, they asked the question: Do cryptocurrencies herald a revolution, or not? This is not a simple question. It provokes other questions, which in turn lead to more: Can cryptocurrencies become real currencies, like the dollar or the euro? In fact, what exactly is a currency? Exactly what's new about blockchain technology-what can it do? Which businesses can exploit it? Can cryptocurrencies undermine the big Internet ad giants like Facebook and Google? Can individuals own their data? How could that work? What exactly is personal data? What should an individual's data rights be? How would a business manage a cryptocurrency? There is no shortage of questions like these. In exploring such questions, Robin Bloor investigates the curious parallel between the historical revolution provoked by Gutenberg's printing press and the revolutionary decentralization of computer power that gave birth to the blockchain. This serves as a backdrop, as Bloor switches between multiple interconnected fields of study: the nature of personal data, blockchain technology, the history of IT, the history of money, the characteristics of currencies, the limitations of cryptocurrency, and more. The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency is remarkable in its clarity, its breadth and its depth. Among other things, it defines what money is and how currencies should be viewed and understood, It advises on how crypto businesses should manage their cryptocurrencies and it even proposes what the individual's data rights should be. If you need to understand cryptocurrency, and you probably do, you need to read this book.
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Robin Bloor was born in 1951 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained a BSc in Mathematics at Nottingham University and took up a career in the computer industry, initially writing software. From 1989 onwards, he became a technology analyst and consultant. He has thus been a writer, author and blogger of a kind ever since. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Computer Science by Wolverhampton University in the UK for "services to the UK computer industry."In 1988, after drifting through several work groups, Bloor met and became a pupil of Rina Hands. Rina was a one-time associate of J. G. Bennett, a student of Peter Ouspensky's, and later, a pupil of George Gurdjieff. Following Gurdjieff's death, she remained part of J. G. Bennett's group for a while. Subsequently, she formed groups both in London, where she lived, and in Bradford in the North of England - initially in conjunction with Madame Nott. She was both an accomplished movements teacher and an inspirational group leader.Bloor's respect for Rina Hands is hard to overstate. She was a powerful teacher with few equals in the Gurdjieff line. It was because of her influence that he became a devoted student of Gurdjieff's writings and of objective science. Rina died in 1994 and is buried in a grave adjacent to that of Jane Heap in a cemetery in North London.In 2002 Bloor emigrated to the United States. He currently resides in Austin, Texas from where he runs a Gurdjieff Group, the Austin Gurdjieff Society. He is also a member of a UK group, The Bradford Gurdjieff Society, which was, in times past, run by Rina Hands.