Description
Product ID: | 9781805392927 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis |
Title: | Crypto Crowds |
Subtitle: | Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain |
Authors: | Author: Matan Shapiro |
Page Count: | 126 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economics, Economic systems and structures, E-commerce: business aspects, Distributed databases, Economics, Economic systems & structures, E-commerce: business aspects, Distributed databases |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2024-03-15 |