
11/02/2021
Trading in Atoms for Bits | Finn Brunton
"The history of digital cash consists of scientific discoveries from the 1970s, hardware from the 1980s, and networks from the 1990s, shaped by theories from the previous three centuries and beliefs about the next ten thousand years." It is "at its heart the history of a debate about knowledge, an epistemological argument conducted through technologies." For our new "Kiosk" essay, Finn Brunton on the rise of digital currencies.
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/brunton_finn_11_february_2021.php
The long history of digital currencies