Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains

【Author】 Caliskan, Koray

【Source】ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

【影响因子】4.182

【Abstract】Drawing on an empirical study of cryptocurrency white papers, this paper proposes an actor-based taxonomy of cryptocurrency blockchains. First, it describes the evolution of blockchain architecture with reference to the economic services that blockchains supply. Second, it discusses the socio-technical platform of blockchains as proposed in cryptocurrency white papers. Third, it analyses the socio-economic consequences of these technically diverse blockchain platforms, by proposing a taxonomy of their digital architectures in reference to two groups of actors that maintain blockchain infrastructure: transactioners and accountants. Defining cryptocurrency as data money, and locating cryptocurrency ownership as the possession of an exclusive right to move data privately in a public or private space, the paper describes a blockchain as a digital actor-network platform that makes it possible to define and distribute these data transfer rights.

【Keywords】blockchain; cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; infrastructure; platform; data money

【发表时间】2020 1-Oct

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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