Re: nettime Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money

2013-04-10 Thread Rob Dyke
bitcoins are finite, memory/money are infinite. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Keith Hart ke...@thememorybank.co.ukwrote: BitCoin is a bubble like any other. The question is whether it will be the death knell of techno-utopianism (which I doubt) or rather another egregious example of

Re: nettime Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money

2013-04-08 Thread Felix Stalder
I guess it all depends if you see the state as being capable of expressing something like the common interest. If so, then capture by financial and other economic interests is a corruption of that principle and one needs to fight politically against that corruption. This is, basically, a

nettime Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money

2013-04-07 Thread Jaromil
dear nettimers, here I propose you the reading of an article I've just published about Bitcoin, which seems to be onnipresent on mainstream media nowadays. http://www.dyndy.net/2013/04/bitcoin-ends-the-taboo-on-money/ the downloadable PDF is linked from the webpage above, where public

Re: nettime Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money.

2013-04-07 Thread Florian Cramer
Jaromil ( Nettime), What I fail to understand is why you consider this a political gain (to quote your paper): The Bitcoin dream is the autonomy of content producers, to exchange their production freely, without aggregations, without intermediaries. This is hardcore libertarianism, since it