Essays about: "invisible speculation"

Found 2 essays containing the words invisible speculation.

  1. 1. The Illumination of Money : An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Anton Angwald; [2023]
    Keywords : infrastructure; payment; bitcoin; financial inclusion; el salvador; future imaginaries; speculation; infrastruktur; betalning; bitcoin; finans; el salvador; framtidsstudier; spekulation; pengar;

    Abstract : Money can be understood as a disembedding mechanism, detaching social relations from a spatiotemporal context. However, different infrastructural instantiations of money make visible–and invisible–different qualities of money. READ MORE

  3. 2. Speculative Interference: A Modern Spectre Attack

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Isak Borg; [2021]
    Keywords : Spectre; spectre attack; speculative interference; speculative execution; invisible speculation; gem5;

    Abstract : Since the Spectre family of attacks were made public knowledge in January of 2018, researchers, manufacturers and interested individuals have experimented a lot with creating defences against it. But there have also been a lot of research aimed at circumventing these defences and finding alternative side-channels and mechanisms for performing Spectre-type attacks. READ MORE