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Author: Alessio Faccia Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book focuses on the Bitcoin ecosystem, revealing the stark dichotomy between its innovative potential and the shadows that lurk within. This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of Bitcoin, presenting it as a technological marvel that promised a new paradigm for financial transactions-anonymous, efficient, and decentralised. Yet, as Bitcoin's popularity and value soared, it also became a hotbed for speculative frenzy and illicit activities, challenging the principles upon which it was founded. We dissect the contrasting aspects of Bitcoin, providing readers with an insightful understanding of its market dynamics. The narrative uncovers how Bitcoin's allure of quick gains and the anonymity it offers have fuelled a speculative mantle, attracting investments while distracting from its more nefarious uses. Beneath this layer of speculation lies the illicit core-a dark nexus of money laundering and illegal operations that undermines Bitcoin's revolutionary potential. Through a detailed examination of Bitcoin's technical and financial features, this book sheds light on the ethical and regulatory challenges posed by digital currencies. It invites readers to ponder the broader implications of embracing such disruptive technology, reflecting on the complexities of the digital age where innovation holds immense promise yet harbours significant risks. From its genesis post the 2008 financial crisis as a beacon of decentralisation to its journey towards mainstream acceptance, "Illicit Core" chronicles Bitcoin's evolution. The book addresses the global perspective on cryptocurrency oversight, explores the intricate relationship between digital currencies, anti-money laundering measures, and the potential future of digital currencies coexisting with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In essence, this book is not merely a story about Bitcoin but a critical analysis of the digital currency, inviting readers to explore the intersection of technology, finance, and society. It poses vital questions about the future of money, privacy, and the role of technology in reshaping our financial and ethical frameworks.
Author: Alessio Faccia Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book focuses on the Bitcoin ecosystem, revealing the stark dichotomy between its innovative potential and the shadows that lurk within. This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of Bitcoin, presenting it as a technological marvel that promised a new paradigm for financial transactions-anonymous, efficient, and decentralised. Yet, as Bitcoin's popularity and value soared, it also became a hotbed for speculative frenzy and illicit activities, challenging the principles upon which it was founded. We dissect the contrasting aspects of Bitcoin, providing readers with an insightful understanding of its market dynamics. The narrative uncovers how Bitcoin's allure of quick gains and the anonymity it offers have fuelled a speculative mantle, attracting investments while distracting from its more nefarious uses. Beneath this layer of speculation lies the illicit core-a dark nexus of money laundering and illegal operations that undermines Bitcoin's revolutionary potential. Through a detailed examination of Bitcoin's technical and financial features, this book sheds light on the ethical and regulatory challenges posed by digital currencies. It invites readers to ponder the broader implications of embracing such disruptive technology, reflecting on the complexities of the digital age where innovation holds immense promise yet harbours significant risks. From its genesis post the 2008 financial crisis as a beacon of decentralisation to its journey towards mainstream acceptance, "Illicit Core" chronicles Bitcoin's evolution. The book addresses the global perspective on cryptocurrency oversight, explores the intricate relationship between digital currencies, anti-money laundering measures, and the potential future of digital currencies coexisting with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In essence, this book is not merely a story about Bitcoin but a critical analysis of the digital currency, inviting readers to explore the intersection of technology, finance, and society. It poses vital questions about the future of money, privacy, and the role of technology in reshaping our financial and ethical frameworks.
Author: Levi Bryant Publisher: re.press ISBN: 0980668344 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 442
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Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options in philosophy. Among the current giants of this generation, this new focus takes numerous different and opposed forms. It might be hard to find many shared positions in the writings of Badiou, DeLanda, Laruelle, Latour, Stengers, and Zizek, but what is missing from their positions is an obsession with the critique of written texts. All of them elaborate a positive ontology, despite the incompatibility of their results. Meanwhile, the new generation of continental thinkers is pushing these trends still further, as seen in currents ranging from transcendental materialism to the London-based speculative realism movement to new revivals of Derrida. As indicated by the title The Speculative Turn, the new currents of continental philosophy depart from the text-centered hermeneutic models of the past and engage in daring speculations about the nature of reality itself. This anthology assembles authors, of several generations and numerous nationalities, who will be at the center of debate in continental philosophy for decades to come.
Author: Martin Gurri Publisher: Stripe Press ISBN: 1953953344 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 465
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How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.
Author: Lynn Cullen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476702918 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author: Michael Pollan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735224153 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 481
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Now on Netflix as a 4-part documentary series! “Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.
Author: Graham Virgo Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316764559 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 625
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The law of commercial remedies raises a number of important doctrinal, theoretical and practical controversies which deserve sustained and rigorous examination. This volume explores such controversies and suggests solutions, which is essential to ensure that the law is defensible, clear and just. With contributions from twenty-three leading academic and practitioner experts, this book addresses significant issues in the law which, taken together, range across the entire remedial jurisdiction as it applies to commercial disputes. The book primarily focuses on the resolution of controversies in the English law of commercial remedies, but recent developments elsewhere are also considered, especially in other common law jurisdictions. The result provides remarkably comprehensive coverage of the field which will be of relevance to academics, students, judges and practitioners.
Author: Nancy MacLean Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101980974 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be.”—NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, stop action on climate change, and alter the Constitution. Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority. In a brilliant and engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how Buchanan forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite’s power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. In response to the widening of American democracy, he developed a brilliant, if diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful and the rest of us. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's money, the libertarian right would not have succeeded in its stealth takeover of the Republican Party as a delivery mechanism. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, the cause has a longtime loyalist in the White House, not to mention a phalanx of Republicans in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts, all carrying out the plan. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. Based on ten years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government.
Author: Gregory Bateson Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226039053 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 572
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Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
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