Issue #4 of the Journal of Peer Production on the topic of Currency and Value is out now.

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