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The Age of Cryptocurrency

Jan 31, 2015
A new book examines Bitcoin, a “highly disruptive technology” that has the modest goal of “freeing people from the tyranny of centralized trust.”

Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money

Dec 26, 2013
The crash of 2008 infused our societies with enormous skepticism of government and central bank authority. Naturally, many dream of a currency that politicians and bankers cannot manipulate. Bitcoin has emerged as the great white hope of something of the sort. Alas, that hope is false.