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Electronic payment systems : winning new customers
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ISBN: 0412462907 Year: 1992 Publisher: London Chapman and Hall


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Money code space : hidden power in Bitcoin, blockchain, and decentralisation
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ISBN: 0197515118 0197515096 9780197515075 019751507X 019751510X 0197515088 9780197515082 9780197515105 9780197515112 9780197515099 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. Its underlying architecture, blockchain, is now championed for delivering a decentralised global economy - a world free from hierarchy and control. This text shatters these emancipatory claims by revealing acute geographies of power that lie behind blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon Valley to London, Jack Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.


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Moving money : the future of consumer payments.
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ISBN: 9780815702771 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington Brookings institution

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"Examines trend toward digital means of consumer payments, asking several questions: How will digital money evolve? What impacts will technologies such as wireless devices have on payment for goods and services? What other technologies await consumers? And what will the consumer payments industry look like in the future?"--Provided by publisher.


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The nature and management of payment system risks: an international perspective
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ISBN: 9291310344 9789291310340 Year: 1993 Volume: 36


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New money : how payment became social media
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ISBN: 0300252455 9780300233223 9780300252453 0300233221 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems - cash, card, app, or Bitcoin - are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory - and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power. --

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