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It's Mine: How the Crypto Industry Is Redefining Ownership
'Sidley explains clearly and persuasively how our rights and identities are being changed and challenged by technologies of our own making' Bronwyn Williams, futurist, economist partner at Flux Trends and Metanomic and author of The Future Starts Now
'Future historians may well look back on "It's Mine" and wonder at such a heuristic prescience gilded with clarity, style, and grace' Josh Rosenthal, US historian, podcaster, public intellectual, educator, serial entrepreneur
'It's Mine is a an easy to understand thrill ride into the endless possibilities borne by block chain. It’s a brave new world, but Sidley insists that we don’t need to be courageous in facing it, just open to the vistas it promises in the near future' Richard Poplak
‘Crypto’, a loose term that means many things to different people, only entered the public consciousness within the last five years or so, now evident by the volume of public discussion, commentary and analysis spread across every conceivable media outlet. Cryptography has been around for millennia, but Bitcoin only arose in 2009, and it was the spark that has taken crypto from a small group of enthusiasts into a many-tentacled creature, now attaching itself to an astonishing number of projects across all manner of applications, challenging both public and private power centres and long-established norms as it spreads. Starting with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, a whole new host of life-forms have emerged – NFTs, the metaverse, Defi, Web3 and DAOs – all of them changing the very notion of ownership.
It’s Mine digs into the history and concept of ‘ownership’, which ecosystems nurture it, and where we are now. Filled with anecdotes, observations and interviews, the book takes an entertaining and accessible look at how Bitcoin made its mark, how its technology is being re-purposed to enable a revolution, and (in non-technical terms) how it all works. It explores how these new crypto ‘life-forms’ will interact with the rest of the virtual and physical world, while making some very rich and some very poor.
'Future historians may well look back on "It's Mine" and wonder at such a heuristic prescience gilded with clarity, style, and grace' Josh Rosenthal, US historian, podcaster, public intellectual, educator, serial entrepreneur
'It's Mine is a an easy to understand thrill ride into the endless possibilities borne by block chain. It’s a brave new world, but Sidley insists that we don’t need to be courageous in facing it, just open to the vistas it promises in the near future' Richard Poplak
‘Crypto’, a loose term that means many things to different people, only entered the public consciousness within the last five years or so, now evident by the volume of public discussion, commentary and analysis spread across every conceivable media outlet. Cryptography has been around for millennia, but Bitcoin only arose in 2009, and it was the spark that has taken crypto from a small group of enthusiasts into a many-tentacled creature, now attaching itself to an astonishing number of projects across all manner of applications, challenging both public and private power centres and long-established norms as it spreads. Starting with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, a whole new host of life-forms have emerged – NFTs, the metaverse, Defi, Web3 and DAOs – all of them changing the very notion of ownership.
It’s Mine digs into the history and concept of ‘ownership’, which ecosystems nurture it, and where we are now. Filled with anecdotes, observations and interviews, the book takes an entertaining and accessible look at how Bitcoin made its mark, how its technology is being re-purposed to enable a revolution, and (in non-technical terms) how it all works. It explores how these new crypto ‘life-forms’ will interact with the rest of the virtual and physical world, while making some very rich and some very poor.
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2023
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About the author
Steven Boykey Sidley
15 books19 followersAward-winning and multi-shortlisted novelist STEVEN BOYKEY SIDLEY has
meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a
Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game
designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He has written 4 novels, with a 5th to be published August 2019. Sidley's writing has been variously compared by reviewers to Philip Roth (Elle), Martin Amis (Rene Montagne, NPR) and John Power (Booklist)
2013 - Winner of UJ Debut Fiction Award for Entanglement (Picador SA)
2013 - Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement
2013 - Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement
2014 - Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out
2015 - Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo
October 2015 - Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand
Livre du Mois, France's most prestigious national literary book club
2017 - Free Association published by Picador SA and sold to Belfond, France
2018 - Invited to perform Telling Stories, a one-man show, at William
Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea
2019 - Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US
2019 - Launch of Leaving Word in SA (August)
meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a
Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game
designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He has written 4 novels, with a 5th to be published August 2019. Sidley's writing has been variously compared by reviewers to Philip Roth (Elle), Martin Amis (Rene Montagne, NPR) and John Power (Booklist)
2013 - Winner of UJ Debut Fiction Award for Entanglement (Picador SA)
2013 - Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement
2013 - Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement
2014 - Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out
2015 - Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo
October 2015 - Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand
Livre du Mois, France's most prestigious national literary book club
2017 - Free Association published by Picador SA and sold to Belfond, France
2018 - Invited to perform Telling Stories, a one-man show, at William
Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea
2019 - Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US
2019 - Launch of Leaving Word in SA (August)
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