CommsWire - 21 August 2017

NetComm and Openreach demonstrate ?world-first? reverse powered Gfast DPU Gigabit speeds over FttDP (AKA FttC) based on Gfast using a reversed power fed Gfast DPU? NetComm and Openreach say they?ve achieve it in a world first.

An ethnography of Bitcoin: Towards a future research agenda

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are a recent socio-technical innovation that seeks to disrupt the existing monetary system. Through mundane uses of this new digital cash, they provide a social critique of the centralised infrastructures of the banking industry. This paper outlines an ethnographic research agenda that considers how the social uptake and use of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin represents alternative views towards value exchange and critiques existing financial structures.