Bitcoin and its spheres of consumption : Transactional orders of consuming money in the Czech and Slovak Bitcoin community
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12189" target="_blank" >10.1002/sea2.12189</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bitcoin and its spheres of consumption : Transactional orders of consuming money in the Czech and Slovak Bitcoin community
Original language description
With the recent proliferation of modes of payment, anthropology must increasingly pay closer attention to innovative designs and uses of money in Western societies. Money has started to be perceived as a consumable service with multiple providers from which to choose. In such an environment, the question of how people consume money-instead of how they consume with money-grows in importance. This article is based on ethnographic research of Bitcoin communities in Prague and Bratislava. It examines how users variously consume Bitcoin and what consequences these diverse ways of consumption can have for the Bitcoin economy. The article identifies two discrete spheres of consumption that closely correlate with "transactional orders" or spheres of exchange as described in classical works of economic anthropology, for example, by Parry and Bloch. One of the spheres is concerned with the reproduction of social order, while the other considers the personal gain of individual consumers. The article also examines the tension between these two spheres and how it is dialectically resolved through strategies of conversion. In the final discussion, the case of Bitcoin is compared with other anthropological accounts of spheres of exchange, with special attention oriented to their dissimilarities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Economic Anthropology [online]
ISSN
2330-4847
e-ISSN
2330-4847
Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
35-46
UT code for WoS article
000566839000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85135918045