Philosophy of Cryptocurrencies

Tomasson, K. (2018). Bitcoin: Bauble or Bullion? Penn Journal of Philosophy, Politics & Economics, 13(1), 2. https://repository.upenn.edu/spice/vol13/iss1/2/

Campbell-Verduyn, M., & Hütten, M. (2019). Beyond scandal? Blockchain technologies and the legitimacy of post-2008 finance. Finance and Society, 5(2), 126–144. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v5i2.4137

Malherbe, L., Montalban, M., Bédu, N., & Granier, C. (2019). Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain: Opportunities and Limits of a New Monetary Regime. International Journal of Political Economy, 48(2), 127–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2019.1624320

Dallyn, S. (2017). Cryptocurrencies as market singularities: the strange case of Bitcoin. Journal of Cultural Economy, 10(5), 462–473. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1315541

Butler, S. (2021). The Philosophy of Bitcoin and the Question of Money. Theory, Culture and Society, 026327642110498. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764211049826

Bjerg, O. (2016). How is Bitcoin Money? Theory, Culture & Society, 33(1), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276415619015

Fama, M., Lucarelli, S., & Orzi, R. (2020). Rethinking money, rebuilding communities: A multidimensional analysis of crypto and complementary currencies. In Partecipazione e Conflitto (Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 337–359). https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v13i1p337

Nelms, T. C., Maurer, B., Swartz, L., & Mainwaring, S. (2018). Social Payments: Innovation, Trust, Bitcoin, and the Sharing Economy. Theory, Culture and Society, 35(3), 13–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417746466

Peters, G., Panayi, E., & Chapelle, A. (2015). Trends in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies: A monetary theory and regulation perspective. Journal of Financial Perspectives, 3(3). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3084011

Amato, M. (2018). The bitcoin or the reality of a waking dream. Critical Junctures in Mobile Capital, 268–276. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316995327.014

Doria, L. (2020). The cybernetic ethos of cryptocurrencies: Economic and social dimensions. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 13(1), 384–408. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v13i1p384

Swartz, L. (2018). What was Bitcoin, what will it be? The techno-economic imaginaries of a new money technology. Cultural Studies, 32(4), 623–650. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1416420

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Money & Digitality

O’Dwyer, R. (2019). Cache society: transactional records, electronic money, and cultural resistance. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(2), 133–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1545243

Mader, P. (2016). Card crusaders, cash infidels and the holy grails of digital financial inclusion. Behemoth-A Journal on Civilisation, 9(2), 59–81. https://ojs.ub.uni-freiburg.de/behemoth/article/view/916

Scott, B. (2018). Cash in the era of the digital payments panopticon. MoneyLab Reader, 2. https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/14-brettscott.pdf

Peneder, M. (2021). Digitization and the evolution of money as a social technology of account. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-021-00729-4

Tkacz, N. (2019). Money’s new abstractions: Apple Pay and the economy of experience. Distinktion, 20(3), 264–283. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2019.1653348

Grossman, J. H. (2019). Passing cash from bank notes to bitcoin: standardizing money. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(4), 299–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2019.1621767

Garratt, R. J., & van Oordt, M. R. C. (2021). Privacy as a public good: A case for electronic cash. Journal of Political Economy, 129(7), 2157–2180. https://doi.org/10.1086/714133

Kregel, J. (2021). The Economic Problem: From Barter to Commodity Money to Electronic Money. SSRN Electronic Journal, 982. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3772941

Didenko, A., & Buckley, R. P. (2018). The Evolution of Currency: Cash to Cryptos to Sovereign Digital Currencies. SSRN Electronic Journal, 42, 1041. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3256066

Mützel, S. (2021). Unlocking the payment experience: Future imaginaries in the case of digital payments. New Media and Society, 23(2), 284–301. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820929317

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“Moneyness”

Bankov, K. (2019). From gold to futurity: a semiotic overview on trust, legal tender and fiat money. Social Semiotics, 29(3), 336–350. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2019.1587833

Hindriks, F., & Sandberg, J. (2021). Money: What it is and what it should be. Journal of Social Ontology, 6(2), 237–243. https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2021-2010

Mildenberger, C. D. (2021). Money, its functions and the moral limits of their re-design. Inquiry (United Kingdom), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.2009025

Agha, A. (2017). Money talk and conduct from cowries to bitcoin. Signs and Society, 5(2), 293–355. https://doi.org/10.1086/693775

Koddenbrock, K. (2019). Money and moneyness: thoughts on the nature and distributional power of the ‘backbone’ of capitalist political economy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(2), 101–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1545684

Wullweber, J. (2019). Money, state, hegemony: A political ontology of money. New Political Science, 41(2), 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2019.1596686

Scharding, T. (2019). National currency, world currency, cryptocurrency: A Fichtean approach to the Ethics of Bitcoin. Business and Society Review, 124(2), 219–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12169

Ferry, E. (2016). On not being a sign: gold’s semiotic claims. Signs and Society, 4(1), 57–79. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/685055

Hull, I., & Sattath, O. (2021). Revisiting the Properties of Money. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3963886

Carruthers, B. G., & Arslan, M. (2019). Sovereignty, Law, and Money: New Developments. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 15, 521–538. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101518-042625

Larue, L. (2020). The Ecology of Money: A Critical Assessment. Ecological Economics, 178(April). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106823

Amato, M. (2020). The nature of money in a clearing system: From liquidity to liquidness. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 13(1), 409–437. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v13i1p409

Vasantkumar, C. (2019). Towards a commodity theory of token money: on ‘Gold standard thinking in a fiat currency world.’ Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(4), 317–335. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2019.1614086

Hayes, A. (2021). World monies or money-worlds : A new perspective on cryptocurrencies and their moneyness. Finance and Society, 7(2), 130-39. http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/6629

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