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Crypto Crowds : Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

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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 tension...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Cardoso, Bruno Campos (Contributor), Pickles, Anthony J. (Contributor), Shapiro, Matan (Contributor, Editor), Tsavelis, Dimitrios (Contributor), Tuddenham, Mitchell (Contributor), Vennonen, Anna (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]
Series:Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 21
Subjects:
Cryptocurrencies > Social aspects.
Social networks.
Cryptomonnaie > Aspect social.
Réseaux sociaux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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