Responding To The Discounting Of Bitcoin And Its Benefits
In an article on Bitcoin discourse, the technology is far too generalized and its merits and users are discounted.This is an opinion editorial by Maximilian Brichta, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California currently working on his dissertation, “Vernacular Economics: On The Participatory Culture And Politics of Bitcoin”Speculative Bubbles, Technobabble And The Ignorant “Enthusiast”: Part OneThere is a strand of academic literature that treats Bitcoin’s advocates and investors as ignorant enthusiasts, dupes and ideologues. Notably, each....
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