New Spaces of Disruption? The Failures of Bitcoin and the Rhetorical Power of Algorithmic Governance
New Spaces of Disruption? The Failures of Bitcoin and the Rhetorical Power of Algorithmic Governance
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.3155378
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Joe Blankenship
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作者：
Matthew Zook;Joe Blankenship
在不到十年的时间里，比特币和区块链技术--一种加密保护、算法监管、分布式账本--成为全球经济的可怕孩子。具有讽刺意味的是，随着加密货币的集体估值达到数千亿美元，比特币项目作为一种由代码而不是信任管理的替代货币的最初目的失败了。比特币不仅没有成为全球点对点交易的流行手段，而且算法治理的高度纯洁性也严重卷入了社会关系。本文回顾了区块链的计算机架构，它与物质和空间的联系以及其既定实践的复杂性。这一分析表明，区块链并没有占据一个算法空间，而是包含了多个相互冲突的机构，并且杂乱地嵌入到代码/物质空间中。尽管如此，对算法治理优越性的信念已经在经济中注入了一种强大的话语权，这种话语权已经被证明比比特币或区块链的实际做法更重要，更具破坏性。
Abstract In less than a decade Bitcoin and the technology of blockchain – a cryptographically-secured, algorithmically-regulated, distributed-ledger – emerged as the enfant terrible of the global economy. Ironically, as cryptocurrencies reached collective valuations of hundreds of billions of dollars the Bitcoin project failed in its original purpose as an alternative currency governed by code rather than trust. Not only has Bitcoin not become a popular means of global peer-to-peer transactions but the much vaulted purity of algorithmic governance is heavily entangled in social relations. This article reviews blockchain’s computer architectures, its connections to materiality and space and the complexity of its established practices. This analysis shows that rather than occupying an algorithmic place apart, blockchain contains multiple and conflicting agencies and is messily embedded in the code/space of materiality. Nevertheless the faith in the superiority of algorithmic governance has injected a powerful discourse in economies that has proven more important and disruptive than the actual practices of Bitcoin or blockchain.
数字化城市中的后人类机构：外在化、个性化、重塑
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
Rose G
通讯作者：
Rose G