Paperback, 100 pages
English language
Published March 10, 2016 by University of Minnesota Press.
Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought. The Politics of Bitcoin exposes how much of the economic and political thought on which this cryptocurrency is based emerges from ideas that travel the gamut, from Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises to Federal Reserve conspiracy theorists.
Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
The book has a nice overview of ideological elements shared by right-wing pundits and cryptocoin evangelists, but it's too short. I felt the author sometimes ~sliding~ in his argument and oversimplifying things. This may be due to the nature of the collection, though. Overall nice, will def. look for more stuff like this. i love the NEOLIBERAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS genre.
