The Hidden Politics of Cryptocurrencies
b'Paul Amery, editor of New Money Review, interviews Professor Donald MacKenzie of the University of Edinburgh.\\nMacKenzie is a sociologist of science and technology. In this podcast he discusses what he calls the political economy of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies: how politics are made in cryptocurrency networks, the influence of protocol design on politics and how problems get resolved. Many of these questions are still open.\\nIn the podcast we discuss a recent article on cryptocurrency mining by MacKenzie in the London Review of Books, available here (http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/260969/Mining25.pdf (http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/260969/Mining25.pdf))'