Tag: Trust

• Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community (in New Media and Society)

  How does a community remain committed to an imagined digital future despite that future’s inherent contradictions? This peer-reviewed article analyzes such a challenge as it was faced by Berlin’s NFT (non-fungible token) enthusiasts. Dominant narratives about NFTs and other blockchain technologies envision a virtual and ostensibly trust-free future, but these enthusiasts’ pursuit of such “trustless…