Social emergence in cryptocurrency systems and their open, self-organized development

Esteban Céspedes

Article ID: 3757
Vol 8, Issue 7, 2024

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Abstract


Being supposedly the ground for an exchange system that does not depend on central, top-down regulation, cryptocurrencies increasingly need new algorithmic and policy-driven rules to maintain their trustworthiness and capacity to exhibit empirically supported growth. The present paper offers a conceptual and philosophical discussion on whether and how cryptosystems could be able to generate resilient development in a way that is coherent with a non-reductionist view of positive economics. As proposed, a plausible way to understand them can be achieved considering their complexity and their concrete, local features, which have to be grasped both in terms of formal and material specificity.


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cryptocurrencies; economic growth; social technology; emergence; complexity

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