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It's Mine: How the Crypto Industry Is Redefining Ownership
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Steven Boykey Sidley

It's Mine

How the Crypto Industry Is Redefining Ownership

Steven Boykey Sidley

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English
Hero
01 December 2023
Macroeconomics
'Crypto', a loose term that means many things to different people, only entered the public consciousness within the last five years or so, now evident by the volume of public discussion, commentary and analysis spread across every conceivable media outlet.

Cryptography has been around for millennia, but Bitcoin only arose in 2009, and it was the spark that has taken crypto from a small group of enthusiasts into a many-tentacled creature, now attaching itself to an astonishing number of projects across all manner of applications, challenging both public and private power centres and long-established norms as it spreads. Starting with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, a whole new host of life-forms have emerged - NFTs, the metaverse, Defi, Web3 and DAOs - all of them changing the very notion of ownership. It's Mine digs into the history and concept of 'ownership', which ecosystems nurture it, and where we are now.

Filled with anecdotes, observations and interviews, the book takes an entertaining and accessible look at how Bitcoin made its mark, how its technology is being re-purposed to enable a revolution, and (in non-technical terms) how it all works. It explores how these new crypto 'life-forms' will interact with the rest of the virtual and physical world, while making some very rich and some very poor.

'Future historians may well look back on It's Mine and wonder at such a heuristic prescience gilded with clarity, style, and grace'.

Josh Rosenthal, US historian, podcaster, public intellectual, educator, serial entrepreneur.

Sidley explains clearly and persuasively how our rights and identities are being changed and challenged by technologies of our own making'

Bronwyn Williams, futurist, economist partner at Flux Trends and Metanomic and author of The Future Starts Now
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Imprint:   Hero
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9781915643513
ISBN 10:   1915643511
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steven Boykey Sidley is an award-winning and multi-shortlisted author and playwright. He is the author of the novels Entanglement, Stepping Out, Imperfect Solo, Free Association, Leaving Word and the play Shape (co-written with his wife Kate Sidley), as well as the 2022 non-fiction release Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Financeand The End of Banks (co-written with Simon Dingle). He is currently a partner at Bridge Capital Future Advisory, in charge of their technology practice, and is an investor in a number of technology and crypto companies. Sidley was appointed to the position of Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Graduate School of Business (JBS) in 2022, to pursue research and teaching in blockchain and 4IR technologies.

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