Dr Jack Parkin

DIGITAL ECONOMIST

About Me.

I am a Digital Economist at Western Sydney University where I research human-machine interaction and its impact upon society. I hold a PhD in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and continue to conduct world-leading research in these fields.

Money Code Space.

Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy - a world free from hierarchy and control. In their eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the dawn of decentralisation.

Money Code Space shatters these emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new framework for revealing the 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, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.

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Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

“Money Code Space gives us an in-depth analysis of particular types of digital capabilities - specifically, powerful tools that can become dangerous instruments. Jack Parkin's book takes us well beyond the more familiar descriptions of blockchain and its cousins.”

Dr Jack Parkin

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