...Eric Vázquez This essay examines Bitcoin enthusiasts’ abstract and material arguments about the viability of bitcoin in El Salvador through historical and political-economic frameworks. In June 2021, with legislators in tow, President Nayib Bukele declared that the adoption of Bitcoin would...

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... of these forms must derive from an under- standing of how they work. In the case of bitcoin, a peer-to-peer database lists a number of units of value, or coins, by unique addresses and assigns them to owners. The database keeps a list, known as the blockchain, of who owns what. The integrity of the system...

.../banking-law/puerto-ricos-offshore-banks-get-a-boost-from-crypto-assets . Zook Matthew A. Blankenship Joe . 2018 . “ New Spaces of Disruption? The Failures of Bitcoin and the Rhetorical Power of Algorithmic Governance .” Geoforum 96 : 248 – 55 . A G A I N S T the D A Y Jose Atiles...

... resonates with both the far right (the sound money politics of a Ron Paul) and the libertarian left (the defenders of bitcoin) of US politics. In the Hayekian imaginary, the governance problems of capitalism could only be overcome through the acceptance of the specula- tive imperative because only...

... does money say today? And how does it say it? In a world of bitcoin, financial derivatives, loyalty cards, alternative economies, and local microcurrencies, it is increasingly difficult to define money...