The Crypto Syllabus

Dear Followers, our January edition is out! Here some of the articles you can find in our curated selection 👇 the-crypto-syllabus.com/january-editio…

~ From our curated Bibliography This paper demonstrates how Bitcoin's production process operates through strict authoritative channels. By @EconSocJournal tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

~ From our curated Bibliography In this article, @ferrari_bv deals with the legal qualification of blockchain-based crypto-assets under EU law. By @MaastrichtEUlaw journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

~ From our curated Bibliography @_paullangley and @AndrewLeyshon develop a perspective for understanding FinTech as a platform political economy that is marked by three processes: reintermediation, consolidation, capitalisation. By @NPEjournal tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

~ From our curated Bibliography Simon Butler explores how the state became increasingly involved in money and, through the words of prominent monetary theorists, identify the problem of the state in money. By @TCSjournalSAGE journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

~ From our curated Bibliography Inês Faria presents a socio-anthropological analysis of the formation of a business ecosystem around blockchain in the Netherlands within the broader context of the European Union and the digital single market. @FinandSoc financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/5…

~ From our curated Bibliography Yoan Hermstrüwer sheds light on the potential of blockchain voting procedures and the legal constraints they need to accommodate. By @nyujll nyujll.com/volume-14/blog…

~ From our curated Bibliography @gdimitrop proposes a “law and political economy” framework for blockchain that is based on principles of publicness, trust, and interoperability. By @WashLawReview papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"A growing managerial logic in entertainment media culture shifted the status of stars from workers contracted to autonomous industries to flexible labourers whose efforts are rendered in the service of self-branding." By @landonapalmer tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

~ From our curated Bibliography @ecuarauz analyses the dynamics of the payment system within the framework of monetary circuit theory applied to the international money hierarchy. By @IJPEconomics tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

~ From our curated Bibliography By looking at Social Impact Bonds as a form of governance of social risks, @agutersandu argues that Social Impact Bonds nurture their own forms of social solidarity. By @NPEjournal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

~ From our curated Bibliography Christophe Schinckus provides an overview of the current trends related to the development of the most used implementation of blockchain technology based on the proof-of-work consensus algorithm. @ElsevierEnergy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

~ From our curated Bibliography @MalcolmCV and @MoritzHuetten draw two strands of literature that have been considered separately in an analysis of the financial and fraught route to global digital identity governance. By @FrontBlockchain frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

~ From our curated Bibliography This paper assesses the moral economy of FIRE to understand why individuals seek this unusual relationship to capitalism that pursues the status of rentier through the strategic rejection of materialism. By @JCultEcon tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

~ From our curated Bibliography Joseph Vogl gives an account of the shift from geopolitical to geo-economical order, within which there is no democratic legitimacy and within which a new class conflict also emerges. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/vi…

~ From our curated Bibliography Louis Larue assesses the proposal to transform the monetary system into an Ecology of money, that is, into a system made of a large diversity of complementary currencies. By Ecological Economics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

~ From our curated Bibliography How does monetization affect interpersonal relationships? Drawing on social phenomenology, Galit Ailon that an answer must account for money’s symbolic dualism. By @SociologyTheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

~ From our curated Bibliography Revisiting analytically the notion of embeddedness, Fiammetta Corradi shows that contrary to Bitcoin’s premises and promises to be a trust-low currency. By International Journal of Social Science Studies redfame.com/journal/index.…

~ From our curated Bibliography This study proposes the use of unique noise and/or harmonic features of cryptocurrency generating machines to detect illegal cryptocurrency mining farms. By B. Dindar and Ö. Gül for Energy & Environment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

~ From our curated Bibliography Agata Ferreira analyzes how the official perception of stablecoins has evolved, from dismissiveness and underestimation to serious concern. By @JIEL_OUP academic.oup.com/jiel/article/2…

~ From our curated Bibliography Blockchain has many applications derived from its properties. Marc Rocas-Royo analyzes cooperative agroecological supermarkets and in what circumstances blockchain is a technology to adopt. By @FrontBlockchain frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…