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Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains

by Koray Caliskan (Author)
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The cryptocurrency world has transformed in a few short years from a niche subculture to a parallel economic universe, reaching a market capitalization of more than $2.5 trillion in 2021 before plummeting in 2022. For their advocates, cryptocurrencies represent a revolution of world-historical significance. To critics, crypto is more of a speculative tool than a true currency. How do tens of thousands of financial actors make these new monies? What forces give cryptocurrencies their value―or take it away? And what does crypto’s spectacular ascent reveal about the nature of money?

In this groundbreaking ethnographic analysis of crypto economies and their global markets and communities, Koray Caliskan offers an inside view of how cryptocurrencies are made and traded. He argues that cryptocurrency should be understood as “data money,” a historically novel money type, created as the right to send data privately over an accounting infrastructure called blockchain. Drawing on two years of fieldwork among global cryptocurrency communities and in crypto markets, Caliskan makes visible the production principles of cryptocurrencies and explores how crypto exchanges work from within. He explains why and how we have been misunderstanding, underregulating, and improperly taxing crypto exchanges and actors. He also proposes a radically new way to make sense of new finance and its actors. An invaluable book for all readers seeking to understand cryptocurrency, Data Money sheds new light on a profound transformation of finance and its possible future trajectories.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0231209584
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0231209588
  3. Publisher
    Columbia University Press
  4. Publication date
    August 1, 2023
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  7. Print length
    288 pages
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With impressive clarity―drawing from striking interviews, fieldwork, and big data analysis―Data Money develops a pioneering analysis of cryptocurrencies, while transcending disciplinary boundaries and setting a new agenda for future research. Thank you, Koray Caliskan, for helping us make sense of the social world of money in the twenty-first century! -- Viviana A. Zelizer, author of The Social Meaning of Money and Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

Data Money offers a novel, surprising, and persuasive account of the nature and development of cryptocurrencies. Drawing on extensive research among those who design, manage, and use them, the book combines a brilliant account of a social world seen from the inside with a perceptive analysis of how these new forms of money work. -- Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

Data Money is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the new world of cryptocurrencies. Caliskan has a genuine insider's understanding of that world, and writes about it with verve and insight. His book is a vitally important contribution by one of the most exciting scholars in the new generation of economic sociologists. -- Donald MacKenzie, author of Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets

A well-articulated take on a particularly obtuse subject. ― Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Koray Caliskan is associate professor of strategic design and management at Parsons School of Design, the New School. He is the author of Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity (2010). Caliskan’s research on which this book was based was selected as a winner of the Breakthrough of the Year 2021 in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Falling Walls Foundation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press (August 1, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231209584
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231209588
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
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    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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George N. Nikolaou
5.0 out of 5 stars A different view of crypto
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023
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This book is not about technology or finance or economics, although it touches on all of them. It attempts a holistic view of the crypto world as a social phenomenon. Through this approach it does offer useful insights for dealing with this new concept that is not money as we know it, or property as we know it. There are also interesting proposals for regulators and those in the fintech world.
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Francis Tapon
3.0 out of 5 stars Spends too much time on the Electra cryptocurrency
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023
I've been in cryptocurrency since 2015 & I've never heard of the Electra cryptocurrency that Caliskan discusses at length in "Data Money."
It seems the reason he's obsessed about this obscure crypto is that he interviewed the founder and went down the rabbit hole of that coin.

However, if you pull back, you'll see it's just another coin among thousands that pumped and dumped.

Perhaps the author felt it was emblematic of a widespread problem.
Perhaps he wanted to use Electra as a poster child of all that can go wrong with crypto.

However, the book's synopsis fails to mention the word "Electra."
It should, given how much time he spends on it.

Given how many crypto books there are out there, there are many better ones to select.

I'm baffled why Columbia Press published this one.
It's not overly academic, but it's also not terribly readable either.

Caliskan is a smart person & probably a great analyst, but his writing is weak.
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İstem Akalp
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful for beginners and pros alike
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023
The book provides a very strong base to understand internal dynamics of crypto communities. The depth of ethnographic research on Electra is baffling. The chapters help the reader both conceptualize and materialize how crypto markets work. Looking forward to reading works that are taking the findings of this book further.
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