Money after Blockchain: Gold, Decentralised Politics and the New Libertarianism.
Blockchain technologies are central to what has been described as a new ‘smart social contract’. With blockchain, individual cryptographic identity becomes the basis for new forms of money and for a whole suite of restructured social, political and financial transactions. But what do these developme...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 33; no. 96; pp. 223 - 244 |
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