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