Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Buch | Softcover

126 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-292-7 (ISBN)

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Ownership of cryptocurrencies features contrasting forms of mobilization. On one hand, it denotes association with a global crowd of unrelated individual investors, which expands as it attracts more members. On the other hand, it includes participation in grassroots communities, which are generally more insular. Crypto Crowds demonstrates how this tension generates political, economic and moral realities in different cultural and geographical contexts. Pioneering in its approach to cryptocurrency trading, this volume will inspire scholars interested in the sociality of decentralized business models, boom-and-bust cycles on the blockchain, libertarian utopias and other postmodern crowding phenomena.

Matan Shapiro is a Social Anthropologist currently researching synoptic surveillance and changing notions of alterity online as part of the ERC-funded SAMCOM Project at the department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

Introduction

Matan Shapiro

Chapter 1. Towards Hyper-bitcoin-ization: Bitcoin Maximalism as Speculative Fiction

Bruno Campos Cardoso

Chapter 2. The Sociality of the Blockchain and the Appification of Money: Affordances of a New Paradigm for Crowds

Dimitrios Tsavelis

Chapter 3. Gambling Crowds as Crypto-Oracles? Bridging the Real and the Blockchain through Utopian Markets and Oracular Shenanigans

Anthony J. Pickles

Chapter 4. Affective Processes in Cryptocurrency Markets: An Exploration with Crowd Theory

Anna Vennonen

Chapter 5. Unstructured Simplicity: Understanding Collective Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Concurrent Formation of Crypto-Communities

Mitchell Tuddenham

Conclusion

Matan Shapiro

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	108 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-292-1 / 1805392921
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-292-7 / 9781805392927
Zustand	Neuware