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Money, code, space hidden power in bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Money, code, space : hidden power in bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation/ Jack Parkin. |
| 개인저자 | Parkin, Jack,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages): illustrations, maps. |
| 총서사항 | Oxford studies in digital politics |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Parkin, Jack. Money/code/space New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780197515075 |
| ISBN | 9780197515112 0197515118 9780197515099 0197515096 9780197515105 019751510X |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Pandora's Blocks -- Money/Code/Space -- Follow the Digital Thing -- Building the Future -- Programming Politics -- Grounding Cryptocurrencies -- Embedded Centralism -- Blueprinting Blockchains. |
| 요약 | "Newly emerging cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology present a challenging research problem in the field of digital politics and economics. Bitcoin-the first widely implemented cryptocurrency and blockchain architecture-seemingly separates itself from the existing territorial boundedness of nation state money via a process of algorithmic decentralisation. Proponents declare that the utilisation of cryptography to advance financial transactions will disrupt the modern centralised structures by which capitalist economies are currently organised: corporations, governments, commercial banks, and central banks. Allegedly, software can create a more stable and democratic global economy; a world free from hierarchy and control. In Money/Code/Space, Jack Parkin debunks these utopian claims by approaching distributed ledger technologies as a spatial and social problem where power forms unevenly across their networks. First-hand accounts of online communities, open source software governance, infrastructural hardware operations, and Silicon Valley start-up culture are used to ground understandings of cryptocurrencies in the 'real world'. Consequently, Parkin demonstrates how Bitcoin and other blockchains are produced across a multitude of tessellated spaces from which certain stakeholders exercise considerable amounts of power over their networks. While money, code, and space are certainly transformed by distributed ledgers, algorithmic decentralisation is rendered inherently paradoxical because it is predicated upon centralised actors, practices, and forces"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 일반주제명 | Bitcoin. Blockchains (Databases) Cryptocurrencies --Social aspects. Finance --Social aspects. Bitcoin. Blockchains (Databases) |
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