Bill Maurer: Blockchains are a Diamond’s Best Friend
Channel: Aarhus Universitet
Date: 2016-02-26

: Economic anthropologist Bill Maurer presents “Blockchains are a Diamond’s Best Friend” at the Contested Property Claims conference, hosted at Aarhus University in December 2016. Maurer examines the technology behind the functioning of such payment forms as Bit Coin, and discusses the consequences of these economic technologies and practices for the future of property relations.