Crypto Crowds: Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain (Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, 21) - Softcover

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9781805392927: Crypto Crowds: Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain (Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, 21)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1805392921 ISBN 13: 9781805392927
Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1805392921
ISBN 13 
9781805392927
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
126
Editor
Shapiro Matan