Bill Maurer: an anthropologist’s take on monetization
By armina, March 23, 2014
Bill Maurer began his session with a statement about the alternative currencies today: “It’s a wild west out there”. Of course, a lot of the emerging payment systems fail along the way. Looking a bit at the origin of alternative currencies, we see the 19th century’s references to the railroad systems. Terms such as “freight” [...]
