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Chump Change: Decrypting Bitcoin & Blockchain

Artists and academics are jumping on the blockchain bandwagon and talking up the potential for cryptocurrency and distributed ledgers to mitigate austerity capitalism. Attractive as techno-monetary fixes may seem they come at a dangerous ideological cost, argues Andrew Osborne reviewing David Golumbia’s The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

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This short account by the Pöhl Monetary Research Group (P.M.R.G) of the sterling’s post-war history begins with three ideas concerning money as such

At the Limit: Self-Organisation in Greece

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

In Greece a resurgence of self-organising under crisis conditions is drawing on an established repertoire of existing alternatives. Anna O’Lory – member of the group and journal Blaumachen – describes these initiatives’ central features and exposes their integral limits

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On Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Copyleft - Three Critiques of Hacktivism

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* Wikileaks - The State Persecutes its Idealists
* Bitcoin - Finally, Fair Money?
* Free Property – On Social Criticism in the Form of a Software Licence

The pamphlet is available in PDF, EPUB and MOBI format at:

http://antinational.org/en/furball-00-hacktivism

To compliment the recent Bitcoin critique it seems a host of these alternative currency/economy ideas could be worth examining and critiquing, lots of these ideas have been around for a long time, but as capitalism and anti-capitalists search around looking for alternatives, these ideas can gain traction and even state support.

Bitcoin – finally, fair money?

Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency deploying peer-to-peer networking to enable secure and anonymous transactions without a central bank. Unlike many economic commentators, The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society and Scott Lenney take the currency seriously but ask, how exactly does it differ from 'real' money?

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Don't Panic, Organise! A Mute Magazine Pamphlet on Recent Struggles in Education

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By mute 20 January 2011

If you are fighting the cuts to the UK's education system (occupying, sitting in, demonstrating, planning further actions), <i>Mute</i> wi...

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Mute Magazine Print Archive

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By mute 13 September 2016

The Mute magazine print archive has its first release for sale as an original, limited edition set of all fifty-one issues of the print versions of the magazine, covering twenty years of publishing from 1994 to 2014.

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Look at Hazards, Look at Losses

By mute 28 March 2017

Authors: Group for Conceptual Politics (GCP), Danny Hayward, Anthony Iles, Lisa Jeschke, Benjamin Noys, Eirik Steinhoff and Marina Vishmidt Paperba...

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No Room To Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City

By mute 9 September 2010

By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New La...

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