Crypto Crowds Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Ownership of cryptocurrencies and related assets has given rise to self-described “coin-communities.” Discussing the notions around social dynamics, this collection explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. It suggests that tensions between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Bergen University funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Cardoso, Bruno Campos, contributor (contributor), Pickles, Anthony J., contributor (editor), Shapiro, Matan, contributor, Shapiro, Matan, editor, Tsavelis, Dimitrios, contributor, Tuddenham, Mitchell, contributor, Vennonen, Anna, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books [2024]
Colección:Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 21
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Towards Hyperbitcoinization: Bitcoin Maximalism as Speculative Fiction
  • The Sociality of the Blockchain and the Appification of Money: Affordances of a New Paradigm for Crowds
  • Gambling Crowds as Crypto-oracles? Bridging the Real and the Blockchain through Utopian Markets and Oracular Shenanigans
  • Affective Processes in Cryptocurrency Markets: An Exploration with Crowd Theory
  • Unstructured Simplicity: The Peer-to-Peer Collective and Concurrent Formations of Cryptocommunities
  • Conclusion