Designed to avoid regulation – the real roots of bitcoin
Walker, M. C. W.
(28 September 2021)
Designed to avoid regulation – the real roots of bitcoin.
LSE Business Review.
As regulators increased actions against the e-gold currency because it helped criminal activities run more smoothly, a new cryptocurrency named bitcoin came alive. Martin C. W. Walker writes that the timeline of the e-gold prosecution and birth of bitcoin seems more than coincidental. He says that decentralisation, the model for avoiding accountability, has been used over and over again to avoid regulation.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2021 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 08 Nov 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112252 |