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Posts By: bozhan

Bitcoin: Leveraging Cryptography Against The Control Society

By bozhan, March 27, 2014

In his talk titled “From Order To Control: How Cryptography Functions in Bitcoin”, researcher Quinn DuPont discussed Bitcoin as a case study for cryptography. Cryptography is loaded with politics, DuPont believes, “politics of liberation, freedom, community, all with an explicitly anarchist tone”. This heavy political charge is reinforced by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden publicly [...]

Peter Šurda: Some misconceptions about Bitcoin, and why it is best left ungoverned

By bozhan, March 24, 2014

Economist Peter Šurda made a case against a hierarchical monetary system in his talk “Why is Bitcoin misunderstood: hierarchical vs. decentralized structure of society”. The barriers set for people to entry the money creation and circulation in a centralized banking system, in combination with discretionary monetary policy, lead to a segmented society that Šurda labels [...]

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