Crypto Politics: Notes on Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Governance in Blockchain Based Technologies

Abstract

Farocki. Together with his sister, Anna Groos, Jan directed and produced multiple film projects (including www.endzeit.at). The joy of 1 The Etherum project is a public, global, open-source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform for 'decentralised' applications. First proposed in December 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, it went 'live' in July 2015. Like other blockchains, it has its own cryptocurrency (in this case, 'Ether' or in short ETH) as inherent part of its protocol design. Cf ethereum.org/ what-is-ethereum/ 2 These points will be taken up directly, but see: CleanApp (2018) 'The Wood-Zamfir Governance Debates,' blogger, Crypto Law Review,