Non-Fungible Tokens

Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Chohan, Usman W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book teases out nuances in how NFTs can and should operate, while also pointing to the potential that these non-fungible assets wield in the digital sphere, along with countervailing arguments against their conceptual and functional salience, and perhaps some dangers that they pose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781032564333
• ISBN-10: 1032564334
• Artikelnr.: 70152039

Autorenporträt

Usman W. Chohan, Ph.D., is an international economist and academic who serves as Advisor on Economic Affairs and National Development at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), one of Pakistan's premier research-based think tanks, where he was also a founding director.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Non-fungible tokens: Blockchain, scarcity, and value Part
I: The Essentials of NFTs 2. NFTs and their Core Technologies 3. A Thematic
History of NFTs 4. Discoveries from the NFT market Part II: The Value of
NFTs 5. NFT Communities as Societies of Producers 6. Are NFTs sustainable?
An ESG perspective 7. A Look Beyond Static NFTs 8. Do Smart Contracts Dream
of Bored Apes?: On The Uniqueness of the NFT Subculture Part III: The
Disvalue of NFTs 9. The Leisures of Blockchains: Exploratory Analysis 10.
The Fetishizing Language Behind the NFT Craze: A Semiotic-cum-semantic
Critique 11. Racial capitalism, Platform Capitalism, and NFTs 12. NFTs and
the Spectacle of Accumulation 13. Conclusion: Some Precepts of the Digital
Economy