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Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology


ISBN13: 9781138592766
Published: November 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £135.00
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9780367669812



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As the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, "blockchain" entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently.

Yet in a short space of time it has become more mainstream and synonymous with a spectacular variety of commercial and civic "problem"/"solution" concepts and ideals.

From commodity provenance, to electoral fraud prevention, to a wholesale decentralization of power and the banishing of the exploitative practices of "middlemen", blockchain stakeholders are nothing short of evangelical in their belief that it is a force for good. For these reasons and more the technology has captured the attention of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, global corporations and governments the world over.

Subjects:
Banking and Finance, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Contents:
Introduction

Part I Regulating blockchain
1. Blockchain
Interlude I: Supplementing the memory economic: … Wampum, memex, transcopyright, blockchain …
2. A regulatory conundrum
3. Regulatory tradition
4. Blockchain the regulator
Interlude II: Regulatory technology: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s tax trunk

PART II Critical perspectives
5. Setting the scene
Interlude III: Anarchic technologies for anarchic economies: the ‘yellow trade’ of the Yorkshire coiners
6. Blockchain as an ethics of neoliberal political economy
7. The psycho-politics of blockchain
Interlude IV: A dangerous lack of law: man with machine in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano
8. Critical regulation

Index