Lecture: The pitfalls of Bitcoin and the many potentials of blockchain technologies.

The limitations of Bitcoin are partly technical, and partly due
to the political economy of Bitcoin within the wider context of
the current crisis in financial capitalism. However, blockchain
technologies are promoted as enabling a lot of new potential
solutions to current economic, social, and political problems.
These changes and solutions will be considered critically within
a framework of politics, ideology, sociology, economics -- and
even economic and financial history thrown in for good measure.

The limitations of Bitcoin are partly technical, and partly due
to the political economy of Bitcoin within the wider context of
the current crisis in financial capitalism. However, blockchain
technologies are promoted as enabling a lot of new potential
solutions to current economic, social, and political problems.
These changes and solutions will be considered critically within
a framework of politics, ideology, sociology, economics -- and
even economic and financial history thrown in for good measure.

Patrice Riemens has been the Fellow of the Waag Society in
Amsterdam, is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software, has
been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the
Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements). He is also a
member of the staff of Multitudes, and was a founding member of
the Dutch Hacker Movement ("Hippies From Hell").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Riemens
http://p2pfoundation.net/Patrice_Riemens
http://hippies.waag.org/

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Day: 2015-11-07
Start time: 11:00
Duration: 00:45
Room: Lilla Hörsalen
Track: P2P Society

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