Data Money

Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains

Koray Caliskan

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Columbia University Press
01 August 2023

Monetary economics; Finance & accounting

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.

By: Koray Caliskan
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231209588
ISBN 10: 0231209584
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Historical Novelty of Data Money and Its Makers, Markets, and Regulation 2. The Materiality of Data Money and the Infrastructure and Taxonomy of Blockchains 3. Understanding Cryptocurrency Exchange Platforms and Markets 4. Global Cryptocurrency Communities as Data Money Makers 5. The Emergence and Demise of a Cryptocurrency Community 6. A New Framework for Cryptocurrency Taxation and Exchange Platform Regulation 7. What Is to Be Done with Crypto Economies? Notes Bibliography Index

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.

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

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 <i>Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets</i> With impressive clarity—drawing from striking interviews, field work, 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 <i>The Social Meaning of Money and Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy</i>