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Crypto Crowds Matan Shapiro

Crypto Crowds By Matan Shapiro

Crypto Crowds by Matan Shapiro


Crypto Crowds Summary

Crypto Crowds: Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain by Matan Shapiro

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

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, Kings College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Matan Shapiro

Chapter 1. Towards Hyper-bitcoin-ization: Bitcoin Maximalism as Speculative Fiction
Bruno Campos Cardoso

Chapter 2. The Sociality of the Blockchain and the Appification of Money: Affordances of a New Paradigm for Crowds
Dimitrios Tsavelis

Chapter 3. Gambling Crowds as Crypto-Oracles? Bridging the Real and the Blockchain through Utopian Markets and Oracular Shenanigans
Anthony J. Pickles

Chapter 4. Affective Processes in Cryptocurrency Markets: An Exploration with Crowd Theory
Anna Vennonen

Chapter 5. Unstructured Simplicity: Understanding Collective Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Concurrent Formation of Crypto-Communities
Mitchell Tuddenham

Conclusion
Matan Shapiro

Index

Additional information

NGR9781805392927
9781805392927
1805392921
Crypto Crowds: Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain by Matan Shapiro
New
Paperback
Berghahn Books
2024-03-15
126
N/A
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