NewsClick: Busting the Technology Hyperbole of Bitcoin
This book is a very readable and valuable monograph which combines sound historical research with insightful analysis. The issues discussed go far beyond Bitcoin and are directly related to broader Internet governance issues , such as those presented in three important books by, respectively, McChesney , Schiller and Powers and Jablonsky .
Golumbia’s book starts by jumping right into its main thesis: that a specific recent technology (blockchain) is being touted as an enabler of a libertarian revolution, not just by naïve technologists, but by determined and well organized extremist right-wing groups that attack existing governmental institutions, including central banks and conventional monetary systems.
By: Richard Hill
Story Date: 2016-10-28T05:00:00+00:00