Bitcoin successfully hijacked a sizable amount of public belief, which
underwrites any fiat currency, and it doesn't get more fiat than Bitcoin.
This is continuation of the phenomena of machine amplification of human
activities; machines do it better and faster. Socializing, sex,
education,
Hi Molly -- plz examine http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42265728 for example,
calculating the energy (and thus carbon cost) of BitCoin... it is not
insignificant. It's a bit like this problem: https://tinyurl.com/yar8svhe --
climate scientists as frequent flyers...
So it goes...
JH
Never Mind the Bitcoin?
By Patrice Riemens, Eduard de Jong, and Geert Lovink
We wrote about (and against) the crankiness that is called Bitcoin back
in 2015, at a stage when everybody was gawking at its sudden rise in
'value' from $250 to something like $400 - up from $5-15 not tah much
MoneyLab: Art, Culture and Financial Activism
Saturday 20 January 2018
10.00-18.00
Somerset House
London
Full day £15.00/ £12.00 conc
More info - http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/events/moneylab-4
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/122385678449918/
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