The editors are pleased to announce the publication of Issue #4 of the Journal of Peer Production on the topic of Currency and Value. All of the issue content is freely available at: http://peerproduction.net THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION ISSUE #4: CURRENCY AND VALUE Editorial Notes by Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolas Mendoza and Francesca Musiani PEER REVIEWED PAPERS ‘Karma, precious Karma!’ Karmawhoring on Reddit and the Front Page’s Econometrisation by Annika Richterich The Paradoxes of Distributed Trust: Peer-to-Peer Architecture and User Confidence in Bitcoin by Alexandre Mallard, Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani The Politics of Cryptography: Bitcoin and the Ordering Machines by Quinn DuPont Reproducing Wealth Without Money, One 3D printer at a Time by Johan Söderberg INVITED COMMENTS Why Contractors Make More Money Than Employees by Amir Taaki Can Bitcoin Compete with Money? by Beat Weber Towards the Democratization of the Means of Monetization: The Three Competing Value Models Present Within Cognitive Capitalism by Michel Bauwens Between Copyleft and Copyfarleft: Advance Reciprocity for the Commons by Miguel Said Vieira & Primavera De Filippi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nathaniel Tkacz - Assistant Professor | CIM - The University of Warwick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research: CIM <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/tkacz/> | Twitter: @__nate__ <https://twitter.com/__nate__> | Current Project: MoneyLab <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------