{"product_id":"digital-cash-by-finn-brunton-9780691179490","title":"Digital Cash","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBitcoin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/em\u003e, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: protecting privacy or bringing down governments, preparing for apocalypse or launching a civilisation of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe incredible story of the pioneers of cryptocurrency takes us from autonomous zones on the high seas to the world's most valuable dump, from bank runs to idea coupons, from time travellers in a San Francisco bar to the pattern securing every twenty-dollar bill, and from marketplaces for dangerous secrets to a tank of frozen heads awaiting revival in the far future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, \u003cem\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/em\u003e explores the hard questions and challenges that these innovators faced: How do we learn to trust and use different kinds of money? What makes digital objects valuable? How does currency prove itself as real to us? What would it take to make a digital equivalent to cash, something that could be created but not forged, exchanged but not copied, and which reveals nothing about its users?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with marvellous characters, stories, and ideas, \u003cem\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470425178348,"sku":"9780691179490","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691179490-digital-cash.jpg?v=1775219126","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/digital-cash-by-finn-brunton-9780691179490","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}