Decentralised digital security: Code, crisis, community (Inscriptions) - Hardcover

Nabben, Kelsie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526187094 ISBN 13: 9781526187093

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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. -- .

About this title

About the Author

Dr Kelsie Nabben is a Research Fellow at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and an alumni of the European University Institute Max Weber Fellowship -- .

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526187094
• ISBN 13: 9781526187093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208