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Record Nr.

UNINA9910850800203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2024]

©2024

ISBN

9781805392941

1805392948

9781805392934

180539293X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Collana

Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; ; 21

Disciplina

332.4/048

Soggetti

Cryptocurrencies - Social aspects

Social networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 cryptocurrency adopters generate political, moral, and cosmological realities, which intensify crowding dynamics online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars to explore further how “decentralized” and “trustless”



technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.