Alchemical Infrasturctures: Making Blockchain in Iceland

• Main Authors: Kyle Cassidy, Katie Gressitt-Diaz, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Etienne Jacquot
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: 973075:Information superhighway:Topic; 1981761:Blockchains (Databases):Topic; 910200:Energy policy:Topic; 1210572:Iceland:Geographic; Diaz; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17613/km63-ts29

Alchemical Infrastructures: Making Blockchain in Iceland” explores not simply the mining of cryptocurrency, but the complicated political, and energy-intensive practice of making cryptocurrency in Iceland; a combinatory process of infrastructures, social systems, political institutions, and desires,...