The topics fro the essay are:
1. Is Bitcoin communist or fascist?

a. Mark Alizart: Cryptocommunism
b. David Golumbia: Politics of Bitcoin

2. Is bitcoin a tool for the apocalypse or post-capitalist utopia?

a. Finn Brunton: Digital Cash
b. Kenji Saito: Reverse Gutenberg Galaxy

3. Does Bitcoin rest on the idea of primitive money?

a. Jo Walton: Bitcoin and stone money
b. Fitzpatrick & McKeon: Banking on Stone Money

Based on the method of the course and its literature, this course would be best suitable for masters students or students in the 3rd year of their bachelor studies.

All the sources cna be found in moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=14727

1. Introduction – what is Bitcoin?

· Compulsory Reading: Nakamoto: Bitcoin - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

2. History of Bitcoin

· Compulsory Reading: Swartz: What was Bitcoin, what will it be?

3. What is blockchain?

· Compulsory reading: Caliskan: Data money - The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains

· Suggested readings: Wang: Blockchain chicken farm (Chapter 2)

4. Bitcoin mythology

· Compulsory reading: Faustino et. al.: The myths and legends of king Satoshi and the knights of blockchain

5. Bitcoin as a payment method

· Suggested readings: Nelms et. al.: Social Payments - Innovation, Trust, Bitcoin, and the Sharing Economy

6. Bitcoin as a commodity

· Compulsory reading: Tremčinský: Labour theory of control

7. (Fake) prehistory of Bitcoin

· Compulsory reading: Walton: Bitcoin and stone money

· Suggested readings: Fitzpatrick & McKeon: Banking on Stone Money

8. Politics of Bitcoin

· Compulsory reading: David Golumbia: Bitcoin as Politics: Distributed Right-Wing Extremism

· Suggested readings: Kavanagh & Ennis: Cryptocurrencies and the emergence of blockocracy

· Suggested readings: Manski & Manski: No Gods, No Masters, No Coders? The Future of Sovereignty in a Blockchain World

9. Crypto-colonialism

· Compulsory reading: Jutel: Blockchain imperialism in the Pacific

· Suggested readings: Crandal: Blockchains and the “Chains of Empire”

10. Bitcoin and identity

· Suggested readings: Heisther & Yuthas: The blockchain and how it can influence conceptions of the self

· Suggested readings: Rantala: Blockchain as a medium for transindividual collective

11. Bitcoin and future u/dys-topia

· Compulsory reading: Saito: Reverse Gutenberg Galaxy - Digital Transformation of Economy and Labor

12. Conclusion