The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (Forerunners: Ideas First)

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Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency on the way to revolutionize the whole thing from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology join a type of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on some distance-right political thought. The Politics of Bitcoin exposes how much of the industrial and political thought on which this cryptocurrency is primarily based emerges from ideas that commute the gamut, from Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises to Federal Reserve conspiracy theorists.

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