A common narrative of cryptocurrencies presents them as "trustless," decentralized, and autonomous systems. The "trustlessness" is meant to suggest lack of need for third-party verification in blockchain technologies, but the term has been somewhat conflated with broader connotations of "trust."...

The emergence of the cryptocurrency as an investment vehicle has brought the phenomenon of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) into the spotlight, since they provide rapid access to capital for new ventures, but suffer from drawbacks relating to regulation and accountability. In that regard, this...

Introduction -- Public Value Conflict: Lives vs. Livelihoods -- Infodemics and Pandemics: Post Truth Public Disvalue -- The World Health Organization (WHO): A Public Value Perspective -- Coronavirus & Vaccine Nationalism -- Comparative Public Value in Developing Countries: South Asian Case Study...

The aim of this paper is to consider the role of legislative oversight of the cryptocurrency domain and it observes that there has been a growing legislative interest in understanding the socioeconomic role of cryptocurrencies. It further observes that the US Congress in light of recent debacles...

The aim of this paper is to consider the structure of white-collar creative labor in the era of generative AI. It argues that, perhaps faster than blue-collar redundancies, it is the white-collar creative world that is far more at risk of disruption and redundancy, caused in large part by the...

This paper examines the concept and the criticisms of Steemit, with a view to situating its difficulties in imposing a self-regulating cryptoanarchist information network, as well its interesting meshing of blogging and social networking with a blockchain (Steem) database. This raises questions...

The aim of this article is to examine cryptoanarchism as a branch of anarchist thought, using the lens of cryptocurrencies to frame the praxis of cryptoanarchist instruments within the writings of earlier anarchist thinkers and practitioners. It argues that cryptoanarchism, despite being omitted...