Digital Cash by Finn Brunton
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
A richly reported history of efforts to build anonymous, electronic forms of money that traces technical inventions (like blind signatures and digital tokens), the engineers, entrepreneurs and cypherpunks who pursued them, and the business, legal and political forces that shaped their rise and fall; it shows how competing goals—privacy, convenience, fraud prevention and state oversight—recurrently collided as startups, banks and regulators tried to recreate the properties of cash online, and argues that these struggles over protocols, trust and institutions anticipated and help explain later developments in cryptocurrencies and digital payments.
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- 2019
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