- Title
- Cryptocurrencies and Esperanto
- Creator
- Libert, Alan
- Relation
- V. International Kaoru Ishikawa Business Administration and Economy Congress. Proceedings of V. International Kaoru Ishikawa Business Administration and Economy Congress (Ankara, Turkey 20-20 May, 2021) p. 208-213
- Publisher
- IKSAD Global Publishing
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Although cryptocurrencies and the artificial language Esperanto, designed by L. L. Zamenhof, are quite different types of things, it has been argued that there are resemblances between them. Both slightly positive and negative comparisons have been made. For example, in the the website for Luno, a cryptocurrency exchange company, there is the following statement: “‘Luno’ is the Esperanto word for ‘moon’. Esperanto is a language devised in 1887 with the main aim of being an international medium of communication, effectively a way to connect everyone in the world through language. Bitcoin is a perfect financial equivalent of this, and in some ways an even better way to connect us all”. On the other hand, a 2013 webpage in the website of another company, Coin Desk, was entitled “What can bitcoin learn from the failure of [the] ‘global’ language Esperanto?”In this paper the validity of some such analogies will be examined. Other connections between Esperanto and cryptocurrencies will also be brought up,e.g.the fact that René de Saussure, a significant figure in the early Esperanto movement, “proposed the first ‘virtual’ worldwide currency –the father of Bitcoin, so to speak” (Gobbo 2020:110).
- Subject
- cryptocurrencies; bitcoin; esperanto
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438921
- Identifier
- uon:40766
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786057440785
- Language
- eng
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