Bitcoin is the most well-known form of digital currency. Bitcoin interests me because it combines a topic I enjoy, Computer Science, and a topic I find interesting, Economics and the emergence of value in money. Bitcoin also interests the world at large, having gained acceptance as a form of payment at many business, both physical and digital.
Bitcoin essentially being a cross between two disciplines makes it an appropriate choice for this assignment. The first article I chose looks at Bitcoin from a Computer Science standpoint, focusing on the implications of the technical implementation of Bitcoin on the anonymity of the system. The second article I chose looks at Bitcoin from an Economics perspective, comparing it to already existing forms of value transfer and storage, namely fiat currency. Given how different these two fields seem, and how frequently they interact, it should be quite interesting to see what different rhetorical choices the authors make.
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