I wonder if the bitcoin/cryptocurrency community fits in the map somewhere, perhaps in the lower right area. It’s newer, so the influence on other things would be weaker.
Eh, cryptocurrency has been a thing since the 80s (see Chaum’s Blind signatures for untraceable payments, 1983), but it was patent-encumbered for a long time. If you look at the people involved, they’re all cypherpunks of one stripe or another, so I’d place cryptocurrency as a subset of hackers at least initially. (The community has certainly expanded since the emergence of bitcoin.)
I wonder if the bitcoin/cryptocurrency community fits in the map somewhere, perhaps in the lower right area. It’s newer, so the influence on other things would be weaker.
Links with startup culture, libertarians, and the “do better than establishment institutions” meme.
Eh, cryptocurrency has been a thing since the 80s (see Chaum’s Blind signatures for untraceable payments, 1983), but it was patent-encumbered for a long time. If you look at the people involved, they’re all cypherpunks of one stripe or another, so I’d place cryptocurrency as a subset of hackers at least initially. (The community has certainly expanded since the emergence of bitcoin.)