Affiliation:
1. School of Social & Cultural Studies, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington , Level 9 Murphy Building, Kelburn Parade, Wellington , New Zealand
Abstract
Abstract
Online markets in cryptocurrency represent a sprawling and eclectic alternative financial system, selling cutting edge techno-investment schemes that are complex and high risk. Crime control is almost entirely absent from this new crypto economy, and it is full of scams. This paper draws on an ethnography of crypto trading to review the main types of scam, suggesting that the grey economy of cryptocurrency trading is part of a wider evolution of society towards the technosocial, and beyond that perhaps towards the metaversal.
Funder
European Research Council
European Union’s Horizon 2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Law,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
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