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Author_Kelsie Nabben
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bitcoin
blockchain
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community organisation
coordination
cryptocurrency
cryptography
cybersecurity
data governance
decentralisation
decentralised autonomous organization
decentralised technology
digital communities
digital ethnography
digital infrastructure
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Hacker
hackers
infrastructure
insecurity
online communities
open hardware
Web3
White hat
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- ISBN 9781526187093
- Weight: 383g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, the book examines how decentralised technologies – rooted in cryptography and designed to operate without central control – depend on not just technical systems but social infrastructures for incentive alignment and coordination. Through first-hand case studies, it reveals the white hat hackers, social infrastructures and ecosystem-wide efforts that make blockchain security possible. At a time of growing concern over digital security, the book provides a timely investigation into how security is enacted across decentralised networks, and what these practices reveal about digital security more broadly.
Dr Kelsie Nabben is a Research Fellow at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and an alumni of the European University Institute Max Weber Fellowship
