“Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine” via Vice

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I wanted to post this video to the blog as we mentioned bitcoin in our previous class and because it delves into the infrastructure of the exchange protocol (labor, computing, electricity & heat, etc.).

For anyone interested in learning more about bitcoin from a technical standpoint, I highly recommend with the following topics: public key cryptography, proof of work, and the public ledger, also known as the blockchain.

(If you ask me about it, I will probably bore you for hours.)

Follow-up to our introductory class

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It was great to meet you all today!

Just after class, and in response to my tweet announcing the course syllabus, Jim Brown of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden told me about a set of texts that might interest some of you:

While I don’t know that we’ll have time to read these comics in the classroom, some of you may be interested in them for your research projects. This exchange also demonstrates the usefulness of sharing our classroom work publicly as we go along — I don’t know that I would have found these comics on my own.