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The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators -- from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold -- until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: protecting privacy or bringing down governments, preparing for apocalypse or launching a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal.
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I'm an Assistant Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. Along with my books (working on the next two now!) I write for Radical Philosophy, Artforum, and other scholarly and popular venues.
