[D66] The Politics of Bitcoin

[A.O.]

The Politics of Bitcoin
Software as Right-Wing Extremism
2016
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Author:

David Golumbia
Tags

Film and Media, Economics and Business, Political Science, Theory and 
Philosophy, 2017 Spring, 2016 American Studies catalog, 2017 Geography, 
2017 Social Sciences catalog, 2017 Film and Media Studies catalog, 2017 
Cultural Studies catalog

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.

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