Description
As the distributed architecture underpinning the Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist project, blockchain entered the imagination and the vocabulary of many people only recently. But as a largely unregulated phenomenon, it is set to impact the lives of billions of people in ways that may not benefit all, but instead simply line the pockets of a few elites.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Regulating blockchain
1 Blockchain
Interlude I: Supplementing the memory economic: … Wampum, memex, transcopyright, blockchain …
2 A regulatory conundrum
3 Regulatory tradition
4 Blockchain the regulator
Interlude II: Regulatory technology: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s tax trunk
PART II Critical perspectives
5 Setting the scene
Interlude III: Anarchic technologies for anarchic economies: the ‘yellow trade’ of the Yorkshire coiners
6 Blockchain as an ethics of neoliberal political economy
7 The psycho-politics of blockchain
Interlude IV: A dangerous lack of law: man with machine in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano
8 Critical regulation
Index
