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 [...]