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Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy

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Serialization of Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy starts here, and will continue (with some moments of disorder) until the damn thing is all out. Further notes on the order of release will be forthcoming. Chunks will be limited until they’re drowning in footnotes – which means not getting beyond the epigraphs today. A cryptic Halloween to all. §0.00 — Crypto-current exists if secrecy has a trend. Such a suggestion is naturally obscure. It coaxes attention toward the surreptitious direction of things. ‘Crypto’ is simultaneously the topic, and the retraction of the topic. This evasiveness is compounded by the complexity of its complement. The current eludes docile conformity with the order of objects. This is – apparently – quite independent of any strategic commitment to concealment. It is a flow of time, electricity, [1] and cash – a turbulent conceptual confluence. Current events are the only kind. If we are unable to step into the same current twice, it is because of what irrev

Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy Nick Land version 1.0, October 31, 2018 Contents Dedication 0: Foreword 1: Introduction 2: Cryptocurrency as Critique 3: Bitcoin and its Doubles 4: State of Play 5: Cash Machines 6: The Open Secret Appendix A: The 2008 Bitcoin Paper Appendix B: Techonomics and Diagonal Method Appendix C: Cryptocurrency and World Order Dedication Ten years to the day since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper is long enough. Serialization of Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy starts here, and will continue (with some m

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