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

ISBN 10: 1805392921 / ISBN 13: 9781805392927

Published by Berghahn Books, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crypto Crowds: Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain (Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, 21)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805392921
• ISBN 13: 9781805392927
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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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.

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.