What was Bitcoin, what will it be? The techno-economic imaginaries of a new money technology.
In its first decade, Bitcoin has not proven to be a practical money form for most circumstances, but it has become a staging ground for debate around the cultural role of money in society. This debate is poised between two related but ultimately incompatible techno-economic imaginaries: infrastructu...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 623 - 651 |
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