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Alterity
Blockchain
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Community
Crowd
Cryptocurrencies
Decentralization
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Social Dynamics
Technology
Trustlessness

Product details

  • ISBN 9781805392927
  • Dimensions: 108 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.
About

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.