Bitcoin isn't just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs - despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn't just money. Bitcoin is resistance money.
Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin begins by explaining why bitcoin was invented, how it works, and where it fits among other kinds of money. The authors then offer a framework for evaluating bitcoin from a global perspective and use it to examine bitcoin's monetary policy, censorship-resistance, privacy, inclusion, and energy use. The book develops a comprehensive and measured case that bitcoin is a net benefit to the world, despite its imperfections. Resistance Money is intended for all, from the clueless to the specialist, from the proponent to the die-hard skeptic, and everyone in between.
Key Features:
ISBN: | 9781032777788 |
Publication date: | 14th June 2024 |
Author: | Andrew M Bailey, Bradley Rettler, Craig Warmke |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 312 pages |
Genres: |
Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy Social discrimination and equal treatment Social groups and identities Sociology Economic theory and philosophy International economics Sales and marketing Applied mathematics Mathematical theory of computation Computer security Politics and government |