Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

by Finn Brunton

Book Overview

The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators--from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691179492
• ISBN13: 9780691179490
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"