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Digital Cash
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created CryptocurrencyBy Finn BruntonNarrated by Christopher Ragland
Length7h 9m
About this audiobook
In this audiobook, Christopher Ragland narrates the fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin
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. In
Digital Cash, 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 civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal.
The 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 travelers 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. Along the way,
Digital Cash 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?
Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas,
Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Psychology
Length7 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byChristopher Ragland
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno
9Chapter 7 - Nanosecond Suitcase
2Introduction: The Passing Current
10Chapter 8 - Hayek in Biostasis
3Chapter 1 - Speculating With Money
11Chapter 9 - Future Desires
4Chapter 2 - Secure Paper
12Chapter 10 - Emergency Money
5Chapter 3 - Recognizable Without Being Known
13Chapter 11 - Escape Geographies
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6Chapter 4 - Blinding Factor
14Chapter 12 - Desolate Earth
7Chapter 5 - Collapse of Government
15Conclusion: Sometime in the Future, Closing Anno
8Chapter 6 - Permanent Frontiers
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