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Cryptocurrencies: A Sociological Approach – Falling Walls

Cryptocurrencies: A Sociological Approach – Falling Walls

My research sheds light on the materiality of cryptocurrencies, their communities, and markets. Locating a historically new money form, Data Money, …

Blockchain from a Sociological perspective: an introduction

Blockchain from a Sociological perspective: an introduction

Bitcoin’s proof of work asks miners (i.e. nodes that maintain the network) to solve a computationally intensive cryptographic puzzle. Structurally, we can …

The social life of Bitcoin – CORE

The social life of Bitcoin – CORE

by N Dodd · 2017 · Cited by 208 — As a form of money, Bitcoin has been sustained by sociological characteristics – e.g. structure, leadership, hierarchy, friendship and community – much more …

The Ontological Sociology of Cryptocurrency – ucf stars

The Ontological Sociology of Cryptocurrency – ucf stars

by OEV ROBLEDO · 2016 · Cited by 2 — From here, bitcoin is examined under two sublayers. Sublayer 1 looks into the Labor Theory of Value or bitcoin as. Commodity Fetishism. From Marx’s Theory of …

CONSIDERING BITCOIN AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT – ShareOK

CONSIDERING BITCOIN AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT – ShareOK

by J Lane · 2019 — Perfect money for Simmel, though impossible, strikes a balance between liberty and fairness, drawing many similarities between his thinking on money and his …

The Social Construction of Crypto-Currencies

The Social Construction of Crypto-Currencies

by T Redshaw · 2017 — ways in which users can operate crypto-‐currency accounts, … This thesis aims to provide a sociological analysis of Bitcoin, and this begins in the …

The politics and social life of Bitcoin underline the significance …

The politics and social life of Bitcoin underline the significance …

Bitcoin is currently being sustained by sociological features that are directly at odds with the political ideology and theory of money that …

The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin – Adam Hayes, 2019

The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin – Adam Hayes, 2019

Nigel Dodd (2014, 2018) brings Bitcoin into focus as an important object of sociological inquiry by understanding it broadly as a social …

“Money is Cool Now” (Part 2): – Sociology Lens

“Money is Cool Now” (Part 2): – Sociology Lens

So what is bitcoin? The (very) short answer is that bitcoins (with a small ‘b’) are tokens native to a payment system called Bitcoin (with a …

The disenchantment of Bitcoin: unveiling the myth of a digital …

The disenchantment of Bitcoin: unveiling the myth of a digital …

by F Corradi · 2018 · Cited by 26 — We instead examine the unexpected and ongoing success of Bitcoin from a sociological perspective, first questioning its unusual legitimation …