Digital Cash

Reviews

"Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards" "[Brunton] brings to life the history of efforts to synthesize money out of math and electrons . . . Digital Cash is stocked with colorful characters . . . Readers may at times feel as though they were dropped without explanation into the middle of a dinner party, albeit a delightful one."---Kevin Werbach, Los Angeles Review of Books "Brunton makes a convincing argument that for all their hype, cryptocurrencies cannot — and should not — be the future of money."---Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times "The best book I've read this year."---Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg Markets "On rare occasions a book comes along whose contents are too extraordinary to be believed. It may be the characters, the narrative or perhaps its evocative prose. . . . Digital Cash will raise as many questions as it answers. You may feel elated, amused and even depressed in turn. But like any good book it will lead you to further reading, to new ideas and eventually, perhaps, to enlightenment."---Gregory Dobbs, Good Reading "Digital Cash dives into the history and philosophy of cryptocurrency, unearthing some unforgettable characters along the way." "Digital Cash is a good book. Even experienced denizens of the cryptocurrency space are likely to learn something from it. Brunton comes across as a thoughtful outsider, one who take bitcoin and the ideas embraced by its users quite seriously."---Sonya Mann, Reason "Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Digital Cash manages to connect these multiple pasts to key contemporary questions of digital value, ownership, and politics."---Rachel O'Dwyer, Science "[Digital Cash is] quite a ride, from cryptographer David Chaum's failed DigiCash initiative of 1989 through to the bitcoin saga — by way of 'a wall of lava lamps, and a tank of frozen human heads.'"---Barbara Kiser, Nature "Brunton's book is an important record of concepts and the players that have contributed to what may represent a whole new phase of civilisation."---S. Ananthanarayanan, The Statesman Expand reviews