Crypto crowds : singularities and multiplicities on the blockchain / edited by Matan Shapiro

"Paperback edition first published in 2022 by Berghahn Books."

Includes bibliographical references

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

"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"-- Provided by publisher