Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

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By Quinn DuPont

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From Bitcoin's mysterious beginnings to widespread corporate use, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains explores how digital currencies and blockchain technology are transforming money, society, and governance. Quinn DuPont explains these technologies through their creators, users, investment potential, legal challenges, and social impact, arguing they represent social technologies enabling new experiments in politics and social coordination rather than mere technical innovations.
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Essential for students, scholars, and anyone interested in culture, politics, media, economics, and the future of digital society and work.

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From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society. Meanwhile, regulators, governments, and the public are trying to make sense of it all.

In this accessible book, Quinn DuPont guides readers through the changing face of money to show how blockchain technology underpins new forms of value exchange and social coordination. He introduces cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to readers in terms of their developers and users, investment opportunities and risks, changes to politics and law, social and industrial applications – and what this all means for the new economy. The author argues throughout that, rather than being a technical innovation, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are social technologies enabling developers and users to engage in unprecedented experiments with social and political levers.

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains dispenses with hype and offers sober reflection on this crucial and timely topic. It is essential reading for students and scholars of culture, politics, media, and the economy, as well as anyone who wants to understand, take part in, or change the future of work and society.

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Esteemed experts praise this book for cutting through the hype and offering clear, accessible insights. Bill Maurer of UC Irvine calls it a "tour de force" in understanding decentralized authority and governance, while Nigel Dodd of LSE highlights its balanced perspective and valuable lessons for students and newcomers to cryptocurrency.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509520244

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 December 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Quinn DuPont is Research Associate in the Information School at the University of Washington.