Indigenous currencies : leaving some for the rest in the digital age / Ashley Cordes.

Main entry:

Cordes, Ashley, author.

Title & Author:

Indigenous currencies : leaving some for the rest in the digital age / Ashley Cordes.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]

Description:

viii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Land Acknowledgment and Appreciation -- Currencies -- Land-Based Currency in the Rogue River War -- Beading Worlds and Leaving Some for the Rest -- Satoshi Nakamoto Is Part Snake : Tribal Legends and Bitcoin's Origin Story -- Snake's Counterstory -- Lives and Afterlives of an Indigenous Cryptocurrency -- The Polymorphic Blockchain -- Cryptocolonialism and Scyborgs Building Blockchain -- Potlatch 3.

Summary:

"How Indigenous peoples have long been at the forefront of knowledge and innovation in currency and payment systems, inventing new methods to store memories, transmit trust, and create reciprocity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262552530 paperback
0262552531 paperback
electronic book
9780262383356
9780262383363

Subject:

Indians of North America Money.
Indigenous peoples Money.
Money History.
Cryptocurrencies.
Cryptomonnaie.
cryptocurrencies.

Added entries:

Leaving some for the rest in the digital age

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321515
Call No.: 321515
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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