When the cryptocurrency bubble burst in early 2018, many commentators became dubious about the merits of cryptocurrencies. Understandably, they asked the question: 
Do cryptocurrencies herald a revolution, or not?
This is not a simple question. It provokes other questions, which in turn lead to more: Can cryptocurrencies become real currencies, like the dollar or the euro? In fact, what exactly is a currency? Exactly what's new about blockchain technology--what can it do? Which businesses can exploit it? Can cryptocurrencies undermine the big Internet ad giants like Facebook and Google? Can individuals own their data? How could that work? What exactly is personal data? What should an individual's data rights be? How would a business manage a cryptocurrency? There is no shortage of questions like these. 
In exploring such questions, Robin Bloor investigates the curious parallel between the historical revolution provoked by Gutenberg's printing press and the revolutionary decentralization of computer power that gave birth to the blockchain. This serves as a backdrop, as Bloor switches between multiple interconnected fields of study: the nature of personal data, blockchain technology, the history of IT, the history of money, the characteristics of currencies, the limitations of cryptocurrency, and more.
The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency is remarkable in its clarity, its breadth and its depth. Among other things, it defines what money is and how currencies should be viewed and understood, It advises on how crypto businesses should manage their cryptocurrencies and it even proposes what the individual's data rights should be.
If you need to understand cryptocurrency, and you probably do, you need to read this book.

The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency

Business & Money

Bloor, Robin J

Economics

Bloor Group

Gurdjieff clearly wanted his pupils to try to understand Objective Science. He left two accounts of it. One adorns the pages of In Search of the Miraculous; the other merges itself into the text of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. He described its study as a necessity - one of five obligolnian strivings. And yet, most books about The Work steer clear of the topic.\nThis book moves in the opposite direction. It grasps the nettle-exploring the principles of Objective Science and explaining why it cannot be reconciled with Modern Science in its current form. It then proceeds to provide a clear description of the fundamentals of Objective Science: 
What are its methods? 
What does the Ray of Creation signify or imply? 
What are the Hydrogens and how are they derived? 
What are the implications of the Trogoautoegocrat? 
How are the elements formed? 
How does evolution happen? 
What is plasma and what is its role in the life of the whole cosmos? 
How do new planets form? Is the Moon really growing? 
Is the Earth itself growing? 
What is Man's place in the cosmos and how can we use the Step Diagram (see the front cover) to understand that? 
Is humanity really food for the Moon? 
If so, how? 
The author accompanies you on a journey of revelation. It's an intellectual adventure and a wild conceptual ride.

Gurdjieff's Hydrogens

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Karnak Press

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