Dear colleagues,

I hope this special issue of JoPP (finally released after several technical glitches!) will be of interest.

Kind regards

Francesca

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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/issues/issue-4-value-and-currency/

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