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

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Edited by Matan Shapiro

126 pages, pocket size (7.25'' x 4.25''), bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-292-7 Pb Published (March 2024)

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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.

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.

Series: Volume 21, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Area:

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; BUS114000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies; BUS045000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Money & Monetary Policy

available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Bergen University.

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Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Edited by Matan Shapiro

Series: Volume 21, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Bergen University.

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Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Edited by Matan Shapiro

Series: Volume 21, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Bergen University.