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Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, the book examines how decentralised technologies - rooted in cryptography and designed to operate without central control - depend on not just technical systems but social infrastructures for incentive alignment and coordination. Through first-hand case studies, it reveals the white hat hackers, social infrastructures and ecosystem-wide efforts that make blockchain security possible. At a time of growing concern over digital security, the book provides a timely investigation into how security is enacted across decentralised networks, and what these practices reveal about digital security more broadly.
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Security is the foundation of digital life - but in the decentralised era, it is reimagined. Decentralised digital security takes readers inside the infrastructures, cultures and coalitions trying to keep blockchain systems secure. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, it reveals how decentralised technologies - born from cryptography and the pursuit of privacy - depend not only on code, but on complex ecosystems of insecurity, paranoia and cooperation. Through first-hand case studies, this book traces how digital communities organise security without central authority, navigating persistent insecurity, threats and coordination challenges. From blockchain white hat hackers to North Korean state-sponsored attacks, it offers a compelling account of the social and technical practices that shape blockchain security from the ground up. In a time of increasing cyber insecurity, Decentralised digital security shows what we can learn from those building, defending and depending on digital systems.
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Security is the foundation of digital life - but in the decentralised era, it is reimagined. Decentralised digital security takes readers inside the infrastructures, cultures and coalitions trying to keep blockchain systems secure. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, it reveals how decentralised technologies - born from cryptography and the pursuit of privacy - depend not only on code, but on complex ecosystems of insecurity, paranoia and cooperation. Through first-hand case studies, this book traces how digital communities organise security without central authority, navigating persistent insecurity, threats and coordination challenges. From blockchain white hat hackers to North Korean state-sponsored attacks, it offers a compelling account of the social and technical practices that shape blockchain security from the ground up. In a time of increasing cyber insecurity, Decentralised digital security shows what we can learn from those building, defending and depending on digital systems.
Author Biography
Kelsie Nabben is a Research Fellow at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date April 2026
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526187093 / 1526187094
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages200
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 6422
- SeriesInscriptions
- Reference Code17240
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