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Digital Cash

The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created CryptocurrencyBy Finn BruntonNarrated by Christopher Ragland

Digital Cash

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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Finn Brunton

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