Digital Cash

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The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

By Finn Brunton

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Digital Cash by Finn Brunton explores the hidden history of cryptocurrencies, tracing their roots back to the 1970s. It uncovers how technological visionaries and political radicals crafted experimental digital money to protect privacy, challenge governments, and imagine revolutionary futures. The book offers engaging stories of innovation, cryptographic experiments, and the radical ideas that paved the way for modern cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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Ideal for readers interested in technology, cryptocurrency, digital privacy, and the socio-political impacts of money innovation.

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold-until now.

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Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. The story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now.

In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilisation of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvellous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.

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Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards.

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ISBN: 9780691209166

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Finn Brunton History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Finn Brunton is associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet.

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