{"product_id":"digital-cash-9780691179490","title":"Digital Cash","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.\"--Provided by publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/i\u003e manages to connect these multiple pasts to key contemporary questions of digital value, ownership, and politics.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rachel O'Dwyer, \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/i\u003e is] quite a ride, from cryptographer David Chaum’s failed DigiCash initiative of 1989 through to the bitcoin saga — by way of 'a wall of lava lamps, and a tank of frozen human heads.'\"\u003cb\u003e---Barbara Kiser, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Brunton] brings to life the history of efforts to synthesize money out of math and electrons . . . \u003ci\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/i\u003e is stocked with colorful characters . . . Readers may at times feel as though they were dropped without explanation into the middle of a dinner party, albeit a delightful one.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kevin Werbach, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brunton makes a convincing argument that for all their hype, cryptocurrencies cannot — and should not — be the future of money.\"\u003cb\u003e---Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book I’ve read this year.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joe Weisenthal, \u003ci\u003eBloomberg Markets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"On rare occasions a book comes along whose contents are too extraordinary to be believed. It may be the characters, the narrative or perhaps its evocative prose. . . . \u003ci\u003eDigital Cash \u003c\/i\u003ewill raise as many questions as it answers. You may feel elated, amused and even depressed in turn. But like any good book it will lead you to further reading, to new ideas and eventually, perhaps, to enlightenment.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gregory Dobbs, \u003ci\u003eGood Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the history and philosophy of cryptocurrency, unearthing some unforgettable characters along the way.\" * Happy Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDigital Cash\u003c\/i\u003e is a good book. Even experienced denizens of the cryptocurrency space are likely to learn something from it. Brunton comes across as a thoughtful outsider, one who take bitcoin and the ideas embraced by its users quite seriously.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sonya Mann, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eBrunton’s book is an important record of concepts and the players that have contributed to\u003cbr\u003ewhat may represent a whole new phase of civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---S. Ananthanarayanan, \u003ci\u003eThe Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403854979415,"sku":"9780691179490","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691179490.jpg?v=1730484727","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/digital-cash-9780691179490","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}