[spectre] Computers and Capital: The Rise of Digital Currency. By Rob Myers

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Computers and Capital: The Rise of Digital Currency.

"Computers and Capital: The Rise of Digital Currency" at Coinfest 2014 
in Vancouver and online is a net art exploration of Bitcoin.

Rob Myers takes a look at how the artists involved rise to the task of 
visualising the social and technical complexities of the popular but 
troubled cryptocurrency.

“Bitcoin is the leading cryptographic digital currency. Created in 2009 
by the now possibly unmasked hacker Satoshi Nakamoto, it polarizes 
opinion. Some people promote it as the technical embodiment of a 
libertarian attack on the iniquity of "fiat currency" and the power of 
the state and big banks, an embodiment of a pure market of value 
untainted by regulation where everything really is worth only what 
people will pay for it. Others criticise Bitcoin, often savagely, for 
the same reasons and for what they perceive as its technical and social 
failings. But Bitcoin is interesting in ways that go beyond the concerns 
of its most vocal proponents and detractors.”

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/computers-and-capital-rise-digital-currency